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Tony
Tony

Reputation: 744

Redirect subirectories without affecting the main directory

While updating things in WordPress I found that plugins that generate slugs can't use a slug that's already in use by another page so I have had to change the slug to be something slightly different. I now need to make sure that anyone that tries the old urls get redirected to the new one without affecting the main page.

So I have /members/ with a list of members and you can click members to go to /member/[name] I need to redirect /members/[name] to the /member/[name] ( [name] can be anything so it needs to be a wildcard.)

I have used both of the following htaccess rules (not at the same time) but they always end up redirecting the /members/ page also which breaks everything.

RewriteRule ^members/(.*) http://domain.tld/member [R=301,L]

RedirectMatch 301 ^/members/.*$ http://domain.tld/member

What am I missing to make it only redirect if there's something after the /

Sidenote: I've tried finding an answer to this but all the results I have found are trying to do the exact opposite (redirecting only the exact match of /members/) that I need and wont work.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 34

Answers (2)

Amit Verma
Amit Verma

Reputation: 41249

You are not using the captured part of the request.

Try :

RedirectMatch ^/members/(.+)$ /member/$1

Upvotes: 1

Kobbe
Kobbe

Reputation: 316

Try this

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]
Redirect 301 /oldDir/old.php http://yourDomain/newDir/new.php

Upvotes: 0

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