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roy naufal
roy naufal

Reputation: 389

htaccess rewrite only working without "www" and "https"

I have this case where the rewrite only works without www and https, this is .htaccess:

RewriteRule ^en/(.*)/1348-duracell-32-aaa-pack.html$ /$1/3016-duracell-32-aaa-pack.html [R=301,NC,L]

this URL works and redirects:

http://example.com/en/car-accessories/1348-duracell-32-aaa-pack.html

this one doesn't:

https://www.example.com/en/car-accessories/1348-duracell-32-aaa-pack.html

any ideas? I spent a good few hours on this without any solution, not sure what's wrong. The rule is on top of the .htaccess file.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 46

Answers (1)

Kate
Kate

Reputation: 1836

What do you mean by doesn't work ? Is the 2nd URL even redirecting ? If you are on a Linux platform you might want to try curl -L --head <url>, then you can see if redirections or taking place (or a redirection loop). Actually curl is a better way to test your rules, because your browser cache could be playing tricks on you.

Note that $1 is the first captured group from your regular expression. So you should add the host you want to redirect to ie:

RewriteRule ^en/(.*)/1348-duracell-32-aaa-pack.html$  https://example.com/$1/3016-duracell-32-aaa-pack.html [R=301,NC,L]

Otherwise the browser is very likely going to keep using the current host name. If you don't provide a full URL, then it has to make up for the missing bits.

But if all you want is remove /en/ from the URL, then you could write a simpler and more straightforward rule.

Upvotes: 1

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