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Asked: 2026-05-25T17:38:25+00:00

for a site move I need to hardcode some very simple URL Rewrites. I

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for a site move I need to hardcode some very simple URL Rewrites. I only see examples with regular expressions but what I need is this:

I have a CSV like

new URL, old URL
http://shop.example.com/categoryB, http://example.com/shop/categoryC

as you see, as the category names are not the same, there is no Regex magic necessary, I just want to create a .htaccess file with one URL Rewrite per line, that’s it.

I tried

RewriteRule http://shop.example.com/categoryB http://example.com/shop/categoryC [L,R=301]

but this doesn’t seem to work,

thanks for the help!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Ok, the answer looks like this:

    RedirectMatch 301 /categoryOLDSITE http://example.com/shop/categoryNEWSITE

    important is the slash in front of the old site and that it isn’t a complete URL but a relative one to the location of the .htaccess file.

    further information here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_alias.html

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