Question

hey well I’m trying to change the url structure using the htaccess file and I’m rewriting my old structure to the new one, although I’m having some issues.

I’m using the following code

RewriteRule video-(.*)-(.*).html?$ http://mysite.com/download-$2-video-$1.html [R=301,L]

Now the problem I’m running into is that when I try to redirect something like

http://mysite.com/video-1-this-is-the-title.html

it’s redirecting it to

http://mysite.com/download-this-video-1.html

instead of

http://mysite.com/download-this-is-the-title-video-1.html

if anyone could help that would be great! 🙂

Answer 1

If the first backreference is always going to be numbers, you could try changing your regular expression to:

RewriteRule video-([0-9]+)-(.+).html?$ http://mysite.com/download-$2-video-$1.html [R=301,L]