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George Mylonas
George Mylonas

Reputation: 722

Rewrite URL on .htaccess

I have urls like www.example.com/de/something and I need to redirect to www.example.com everything that starts with /de/.

At the moment I have done this

redirect 301 /de http://example.com

and it redirect all links but just removing /de part and result is www.example.com/something.

How to fix this?

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 26

Answers (2)

Daniel Ferradal
Daniel Ferradal

Reputation: 2900

If you want /de/ in the target you should have specified so, becasue Redirect will include in the target everything "after" what you have matched.

For a different virtualhost as the destination you want this:

Redirect 301 /de/ http://example.com/de/

or

Redirect 301 /de http://example.com/de

If what you want is redirect inside the same virtualhost /de to /, then use a negative lookahead.

RedirectMatch ^(?!de) http://example.com/

If the context is .htaccess, for virtualhost It would be:

RedirectMatch ^/(?!de) http://example.com/

Note: I use /de/ originally because that's what you describe in your question, and also I match slashes in the target. Both source and target without slashes would be fine too for cases like /desomething or /de/something. In any case, always match slashes or the lack of them.

Note2: Do not use .htaccess to redirect unless you are not the admin of the site. It just complicates things and adds unnecessary overhead since the file/s need to be checked a number of times per hit.

Upvotes: 0

Amit Verma
Amit Verma

Reputation: 41249

redirect directive matchs rest of the uri and appends it to the target, you can use RedirectMatch to redirect a specific uri

redirectMatch 301 ^/de/? http://example.com

Upvotes: 1

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