Question

I am not very experienced with .htaccess files and editing, could you guys please help me with this?

I need to redirect all url’s that start with

mydomain.com/shop/category/EXAMPLE-CATEGORY-NAME

to this:

mydomain.com/shop-products/EXAMPLE-CATEGORY-NAME

For example, if I set the rule on 'www.blahblah.com', then it should redirect http://www.blahblah.com/shop/category/thisisanexample/

to

http://www.blahblah.com/shop-products/thisisanexample/

Answer 1

Try putting this in the htaccess file in your document root:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/shop/category/(.*)$ /shop-products/$1

Or using mod_rewrite:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?shop/category/(.*)$ /shop-products/$1 [L,R=301]

If you don’t want the redirect the browser (i.e. change the URL in the browser’s address bar), remove the R=301 flag from the brackets so it’s just [L], then going to http://www.blahblah.com/shop/category/thisisanexample/ will make it so the browser’s address bar is unchanged but gets served the content at /shop-products/thisisanexample/.