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tuscan88
tuscan88

Reputation: 5839

301 redirect old urls in subdirectory to new urls

I have changed the url structure on a wordpress site and need to 301 the old urls to the new ones. The old structure was as follows:

/news/[category-name]/[post-url-slug]

So it was always /news then it would have the url slug for the category and then the url slug for the post name.

The new structure is as follows:

/[post-url-slug]

So I have basically got rid of the news and category name portion of the url. How would I 301 all the old urls to the new ones in my htaccess? mod rewrite is enabled.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 145

Answers (1)

Twicetimes
Twicetimes

Reputation: 678

Add this to your .htaccess or apache config:

RewriteRule ^news/.+?/(.+)$ $1 [R=301,L]

You might want to be more specific than .+ depending on the rules for your category and post names. Eg: [a-zA-Z0-9-_]+ or similar.

Have a play on debuggex if needed:

Regular expression visualization

Debuggex Demo

Upvotes: 1

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