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Jamie
Jamie

Reputation: 47

HTACCESS - Multiple RedirectMatch Rules

I'm working on a site fixing a few dead links; but I'm having an issue with my RedirectMatch directives.

RedirectMatch 301 "/treatmentsgenuine-dermaroller(.*)" http://example.com/treatments/genuine-dermaroller-therapy
RedirectMatch 301 "/treatments/genuine-dermaroller(.*)" http://example.com/treatments/genuine-dermaroller-therapy

These are to both correct the badly written link (top) to the page, and redirect requests to the original URL of this page (bottom). The URL had a trademark symbol in the URL, so I removed it for the sake of making it easier to type in/work with.

The only issues is, the site returns error 500 when both of these rules are in place. If I remove the second, it works fine. I've also had the same issue with every other RedirectMatch I've tried adding to the htaccess.

I've tried adding the [L] flag, out of a hunch, but this didn't seem to make a positive difference.

Is there anything wrong with this that I can't see?

Are multiple RedirectMatch directives even allowed?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1161

Answers (2)

Jamie
Jamie

Reputation: 47

The best solution I managed to find was 

RedirectMatch 301 "((treatmentsgenuine-dermaroller(.)-therapy)|(treatments/genuine-dermaroller(.)-therapy))" http://example.com/treatments/genuine-dermaroller-therapy

This way both variations of the URL are dealt with by the same rule, preventing the redirect loop pointed out to me by @anubhava.

Upvotes: 0

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785146

Replace both rules with just this one:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/(treatments)/(genuine-dermaroller)((?!-therapy).*)$ /$1/$2-therapy

Your 2nd rule is also matching target URL and causing a redirection loop.

Upvotes: 1

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