Question

🙂

I need a .htaccess RewriteRule that can do this:

If the browser load this url path:

http://www.domain.com/example/word_to_change/

change to

http://www.domain.com/example/new_word/

take a look that the “word_to_change” and “new_word” appears in the third level in the path

I was tried this:

RewriteRule ^(word_to_change/)?$ /new_word/ [R,L]

But only works if the “word_to_change” appears in the second level, not in the third.

thanks for your help! 🙂

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ADDED:

three examples:
need to change

http://www.domain.com/second_level_with_any_word/specific_word_1 or
http://www.domain.com/example_1/specific_word_1 or
http://www.domain.com/example_2/specific_word_1

to

http://www.domain.com/second_level_anything/specific_word_2 or
http://www.domain.com/example_1/specific_word_2 or
http://www.domain.com/example_2/specific_word_2

maybe is mor simple for explain with this other example:

http://*/*/specific_word1
for
http://*/*/specific_word2

Answer 1

This depends on what to acomplish, if you want to change ANY word that apeaers after example with a SPECIFIC word then what you need is:

RewriteRule ^example/(.*) /new_path/ [R,L]

if you want to pass that word as a paramater you can use

RewriteRule ^example/(.*) /new_path/process.php?word=$1 [R,L]

if you want to send any URL that ends with a specific word try this

RewriteRule ^(.*)/old_word/$ /$1/new_word/ [R,L]