.htaccess 301 redirect with regex

Question

I am trying to fix a lot of errors in our old website regarding a thing with product pages having multiple URLs associated with a single product.

I am hoping that I can use regular expressions in with a regular redirect 301 line but so far I cannot seem to get it to work.

Here is what I am trying:

redirect 301 /products/(.*?)/(.*?)/5702/(.*?).html http://mycompany.com/footwear/wolverine-boots-waterproof-durashocks-work-boots-2582-33390.html

Does anyone have any ideas as to what I am doing wrong?

Just for clarification, we are talking about Apache, right? – andol Aug 08 '10 at 17:08 — andol, Aug 08 '10 at 17:08
Yes I am using Apache – Josh Pennington Aug 08 '10 at 17:24 — Josh Pennington, Aug 08 '10 at 17:24

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 08 '10 at 16:43

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The redirect directive doesn't take regular expressions. What you probably want to use instead is RedirectMatch.

answered Aug 08 '10 at 16:43

andol

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 08 '10 at 16:47

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you could use mod_rewrite

with something like:

RewriteEngine  on
RewriteRule ^/products/(.?)/(.?)/5702/(.*).html http://mycompany.com/footwear/wolverine-boots-waterproof-durashocks-work-boots-2582-33390.html [L,R=301]

can you give example of structure you are trying to redirect? es: /product/aa/bb/1234/aaaaaaaaaaa.html

answered Aug 08 '10 at 16:47

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the first regex block is in the format 23_45_67 (numbers with _ between them) and the second one is a regular int and the third block is a string. – Josh Pennington Aug 08 '10 at 17:25

.htaccess 301 redirect with regex

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