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#1 2008-01-07 22:48:43
- els
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Need some help with regular expressions... again...
I’m trying to redirect requests for individual articles in a section to the section home page. This is the closest I get:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/section-name/(.+) http://site.com/section-name/?but it gives me a 404 with a Firefox message saying something about a never ending redirection (it’s in Dutch, I don’t know what would have been the exact message in English). It doesn’t work without the last ? either.
Help please? Is it even possible?
Edit: I can do it with normal redirects, but this section has over 100 articles, so my .htaccess would become a complete novel…
Last edited by els (2008-01-07 23:30:05)
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Re: Need some help with regular expressions... again...
http://site.com/section-name/? would be caught by ^/section-name/(.+)
I haven’t done much with mod_rewrite, so that is all the help I can provide.
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#3 2008-01-08 03:19:35
- Mary
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Re: Need some help with regular expressions... again...
Make sure this goes above your Txp rewrite rules:
RewriteRule ^section-name/(.+)$ http://site.com/section-name [L,R=301]Offline
#4 2008-01-08 15:44:27
- els
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Re: Need some help with regular expressions... again...
Thank you Mary, that works! I think I tried this one yesterday, but I put it after the TXP rewrite rules. (When oh when am I going to understand this…)
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#5 2008-01-10 05:34:47
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Re: Need some help with regular expressions... again...
mod_rewrite process the rules in the order they appear in your .htaccess, so you want any kind of redirects to be processed first, and the L flag ensures it is also the last rule processed.
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