Htaccess 301 redirect and regular expression problem

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Hello

I am new here and was advised to join to see if anyone could help.

I need to write a htaccess rule that redirects URLs that follow a certain string, to a new more appropriate URL.

However there is a problem in that the pages i want to redirect also have subpages within them.

e.g. I want to redirect this URL www.example.com/womens/designer-1-all to this URL www.example.com/womens/designer-1

I then will replicate this for all designer pages which is an easy task and a simple rule to write. However on those ‘-all’ pages are options that allow the user to filter products but creates brand new URLs like this:

www.example.com/womens/designer-1-all/tops
www.example.com/womens/designer-1-all/bags
www.example.com/womens/designer-1-all/dresses

This problem then replicates across all designer pages and there are too many to do this manually.

How can i use reg ex’s to write a rule that says when URL ends in ‘/tops’ or ‘/bags’ and is part of URL folder ending with ‘-all’ then redirect to xxxx page?

Thanks for any help in advance.

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Hi Keir_SL,

Welcome to Sitepoint!

Are the categories such as ‘tops’ and ‘bags’ parameter on your un re-written URL, like [noparse]www.example.com/designer-1-all.html?cat=‘tops’[/noparse] or are these statically constructed links like [noparse]www.example.com/designer-1-all/tops.html’[/noparse]?

Steve

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K_SL,

First, Welcome to SitePoint!

You might benefit from reading the mod_rewrite tutorial linked in my signature as it contains explanations and sample code. It’s helped may members and should help you, too. Come back with your attempt and I can walk you through what might be missing.

Regards,

DK