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Sam Holguin
Sam Holguin

Reputation: 563

redirect all directory URLs except one to an external URL using .htaccess

I need to redirect the following:

http://olddomain.com/products/* ---> http://shop.newdomain.com/

Except for http://olddomain.com/products/certain-category

So far I can redirect them all:

RedirectMatch 301 /products(.*) http://shop.newdomain.com/

I just need to stop redirecting 'certain-category'??

Something like:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond /products(.*) !^/(certain-category)/
RewriteRule (.*) http://shop.newdomain.com/ [L,R=301]
</IfModule>

Although this is redirecting the whole site to http://shop.newdomain.com/

Upvotes: 1

Views: 84

Answers (1)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785256

You can use this negative lookahead based rule:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^products/(?!certain-category).*$ http://shop.newdomain.com/ [NC,L,R=301]

(?!certain-category) is a negative lookahead that will fail the match if certain-category comes right after /products/ in URL.

Make sure to clear your browser cache before testing this.

Upvotes: 1

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