Question

I have updated country code in the base path and I am attempting the redirect users that end up going to:
http://www.example.com/uk/etc1/etc2/etc..

http://www.example.com/gb/etc1/etc2/etc..

But also sometimes also http://www.example.com/uk#etc

I thought this would be fairly trivial in mod_rewrite I cant get anything to work.

The closest I feel I have come is the following rule, but nothing happens when I land on uk.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    Options +FollowSymLinks
    RewriteEngine on

    RewriteRule .* index.php [L] #this is active already on the page

    RewriteRule   ^/uk(.*) /gb(.*) [R]
</IfModule>

Edit:

This seems closer but I am getting stuck in an endless loop:

RewriteRule ^uk(.*) /gb$1 [R]

Edit 2 / (3) Answer:

This seems to redirect correctly(is correct):

RewriteRule ^uk(.*)$ /gb$1 [R=302,L]

RewriteRule .* index.php [L]

But the formatting is broken on the page, looks like some loop problem.

But the formatting is incorrect, If I swap the two RewriteRules the formatting is correct but the uk => gb conversion doesn’t seem to get called at all.

Answer

Be careful of Rewriteconditions, I failed to notice the significance of them and I removed them for the original index.php rewrite which meant it could not locate any media.
I failed to take notice of the rewrite conditions which applied for the original index.php

Answer 1

This should do the trick:

Options +FollowSymLinks

DirectoryIndex index.php

RewriteEngine on        
RewriteRule   ^/uk(.*) /gb$1 [R=301,L]