Htaccess - rewriting part of a file name

Server Config
1

Hello,

I just made a change to my site and have a lot of links that I need to direct. The problem is I am trying to regex match a word inside the url and remove it, for example: burger-joint-is-tasty.html find links with word “joint” and remove for new url burger-is-tasty.html

So far all I have been able to find are resources for changing the entire directory. The reason I need to just change one word is because everything before and after that is going to be different.

Thanks for any help

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nt sure but may be it can be done via this rule

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^(.)undesired-string(.)$ yoursite.com/$1new-string$2 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.yoursite.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ yoursite.com//$1 [L,R=301]
</IfModule>

or just try this

RewriteRule ^(.)undesired-string(.)$ $1new-string$2 [R=301,L]

or this
RewriteRule ^(.)undesired-string(.)$ http://yoursite.com/$1new-string$2 [R=301,L]

3

I’ll give that a try. Thanks!

4

That’ll do it - EXCEPT for the insane <IfModule> conditionals which must be run multiple times for each and every file request, i.e., ABUSE of the Apache server and certain reason to prohibit your existence on a shared server!

Regards,

DK