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HMLDude
HMLDude

Reputation: 1637

URL Redirection with character - in HTACCESS

I need to redirect multiple URLs with hyphens in them, through .htaccess.

Here is the current .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php
RewriteRule ^/([0-9]+).*$ /$1/ [R,L]

Here is an example of the URL format I am trying to redirect:

http://www.example.com/52346-3/

Should redirect to 

http://www.example.com/52346/

I am new to .htaccess and just can't seem to get that last line quite right.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 84

Answers (1)

MrWhite
MrWhite

Reputation: 45829

RewriteRule ^/([0-9]+).*$ /$1/ [R,L]

This redirect will need to go near the start of the .htaccess file, before the existing rewrites. You also need to remove the slash prefix from the RewriteRule pattern, otherwise it will never match in a directory (.htaccess) context.

So, assuming you simply want to strip everything after the first group of digits (including the hyphen), then try something like the following:

RewriteRule ^(\d+)- /$1/ [R,L]

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

\d is a shorthand character class for [0-9]. .*$ is the same as not including a trailing pattern at all.

I've also added the L flags - important for the second RewriteRule.

UPDATE: Added hyphen to the end of the RewriteRule pattern to explicitly match a hyphen (and to avoid a redirect loop).

Upvotes: 2

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