Question

I am in the process of deploying a new site which needs 301 redirects setup for existing links indexed by Google.

Can anyone suggest how using the routes feature & regular expression I force any links to use the new 301 redirect.

E.g. a route

$route['hotel/pages/([a-z0-9_-]+)//\.htm$/'] = 'hotel/page/redirect/$1/$2';

So i’d like any pages that following the following structure:

site.com/hotel/pages/somesection/page.html

to use another controller where i’ll setup the 301 redirect (I can do this bit)

Can anyone give me some suggestions?

Answer 1

This should do (built a quick local test and it worked):

$route['hotel/pages/(:any)/(\w+.html$)']  = 'hotel/page/redirect/$1/$2';

:any (a CI’s thing) is much like /\w+/i so it matches anything in the 3rd segment, and remaps to the $1; then you have a slash and then any character, repeated more times, and ending in ‘.html’, which remaps to $2