Question

I am working on wordpress blog and the its has the url pattern something like this. localhost/blog/2012/10/12/sample-post/ .

Now i have updated the url pattern to localhost/blog/sample-post/.

Now i need a redirection to second URL pattern if someone enters the first URL Pattern as i have already submitted URLs with first pattern to couple of articles.

i.e, localhost/blog/2012/10/12/sample-post/ should be redirected to localhost/blog/sample-post/

Can anyone assist me by providing htacess code ?

Answer 1

Try adding these to the htaccess file in your document root. Make sure they are before any wordpress related rules:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?blog/[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}/(.*)$ /blog/$1 [L,R=301]