[SOLVED] htaccess redirect ... regex help needed.

socalheel · 03-23-2016, 08:03 AM

i am working on centos 6 box with apache only.

i need to set up an all encompassing redirect and i'm not sure how i can solve this one.

we recently rebuilt our company website. our old URL's are still indexed in google and do not map to our current URL structure.

our old URL structure had blog posts in subfolders according to the year and another subfolder for the month.

how can i construct a rule to basically remove the year and month subfolders and keep the requested page at the end?
example:

i need this:

Code:

www.mydomain.com/blog/2015/07/post-one/

to redirect to:

Code:

www.mydomain.com/blog/post-one/

Habitual · 03-23-2016, 08:28 AM

This isn't Wordpress-related is it?

socalheel · 03-23-2016, 08:40 AM

it is ... i'd like to not install a plugin.

here is the rule i have so far:

Code:

redirect 302 ^/blog/[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/(.*)$ /blog/$1

but isn't working for some reason.

i also tried this and it did not work:

Code:

RewriteRule ^/blog/[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/(.*)$ /blog/$1 [R=302]

Habitual · 03-23-2016, 09:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by socalheel

Our old URL's are still indexed in google and do not map to our current URL structure.

So fix the URL structure on the new host to match the old?
I believe https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks is what you are after.
It is not an addon, but a feature of Wordpress.

Have Fun!

socalheel · 03-23-2016, 09:48 AM

thanks man ... our marketing team has pushed the decision to not use the year/month subfolders, so we don't want to match our old URL structure

i like that link you sent! thanks dude.

Habitual · 03-23-2016, 10:26 AM

So, what else is left?

socalheel · 03-23-2016, 12:36 PM

i got a complete list of 404's from our marketing department and it wasn't that bad ... so i just did a few mins of text manipulating and wrote a few rewrite rules for those 404's.

Habitual · 03-23-2016, 01:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by socalheel

i got a complete list of 404's from our marketing department and it wasn't that bad

Funny how that works, sometimes, now isn't it?

socalheel · 03-23-2016, 03:54 PM

haha yeah ... i was expecting 1,000 redirects or something.