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mod-rewrite
user2306309
user2306309

Reputation: 541

Simple modrewrite rule with regex

This are my urls

http://test.aDomain.com/x-61bff
http://test.aDomain.com/x-ssmJhs54as65d4
http://test.aDomain.com/x-115545454

my rewrite rules

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^create-account create-account.php [L]
RewriteRule ^account account.php [L]
RewriteRule ^impress impress.php [L]


RewriteRule ^(x\-[a-zA-Z0-9]+) redirect.php?code=$1 [L]

The result is

http://test.aDomain.com/redirect.php

But why? it should be

http://test.aDomain.com/redirect.php?code=x-61bff

i dont get it ... can anybody help?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 13

Answers (1)

umläute
umläute

Reputation: 31274

mainly because you got the regex wrong:

  1. the / between the host-name and the path is really part of the path (e.g. it is /x-61bff instead of x-61bff). however, your regex matches only an x at the very beginning, thus /x-61bff will never match.

  2. the minus-sign has only a special meaning within square brackets (e.g. [A-Z]); outside it is just another character, there is no need to escape it

so your rewrite-rule really should look like:

RewriteRule ^/(x-[a-zA-Z0-9]*) redirect.php?code=$1 [L]

Upvotes: 1

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