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Re: [LUG] apache mod_rewrite

 

Useful link. Thanks


On 15 November 2013 10:44, Anthony Williams <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 15/11/13 10:24, stinga wrote:
> I have a url that comes in as
> url1 = /dir1/dir2/dir3/string_part_1/string_part_2/page.html
> or
> url2 = /dir1/dir2/dir3/string/page.html
>
> And I want to remove dir1 dir2 dir3 and page.html
>
> dir1 is static
> dir2 and dir3 change
>
> url1 works
> url2 does not
>
> Here is my RewriteRule
> RewriteRule ^/dir1/.*/.*/(.*)/page.html /$1 [R=301]
>
> Redirect is working but I get
> string_part_2
> and I want
> string_part_1/string_part_2
>
> It has to do with the / in between string_part_1 and Part_2
>
> None of the dir's are actually dir's.
>
> I am stumped... (it is bound to be something really simple)

You can try out rewriterules at
http://martinmelin.se/rewrite-rule-tester/ which I find quite useful.

In your case, the initial .*s catch too much.

You want [^/]*, not .*:

RewriteRule ^/dir1/[^/]*/[^/]*/(.*)/page.html /$1 [R=301]

Anthony
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