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Asked: 2026-06-17T00:51:22+00:00

I need help writing an htaccess redirect or rewrite rule (mod_rewrite.c) to handle the

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I need help writing an htaccess redirect or rewrite rule (mod_rewrite.c) to handle the following situation:


http://www.mysite.com/archive/[YEAR]/archive/[YEAR]/[CORRECT-PATH]

should redirect to:


http://www.mysite.com/archive/[YEAR]/[PATH]

Basically, there are some externals links that have incorrectly doubled-up on the /archive/[YEAR]/ part of the path, where there should only be one instance. I have a sub-directory for each year (/archive/2011, /archive/2012, etc.) – those year directories are the roots of separate Drupal installations – each with their own .htaccess file (which is tripping me up).

The [CORRECT-PATH] bit is usually an alias to a Drupal page, for example:

http://www.mysite.com/archive/2012/winners/all

I’m not so good with wildcard and matching syntaxes – any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try adding these rules to your document root:

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

    This checks that the year is duplicated, for any 4 digit year. so:

    1. http://www.mysite.com/archive/1234/archive/2345/blah/blah does nothing
    2. http://www.mysite.com/archive/2345/archive/2345/blah/blah gets redirected to
      http://www.mysite.com/archive/2345/blah/blah
    3. http://www.mysite.com/archive/1234/blah/blah does nothing.

    After looking at your problem again, you’re going to need to add rules to each of your /archive/[YEAR] directories:

    RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /archive/2011/
RewriteRule ^archive/[0-9]{4}/(.*)$ $1 [L,R=301]

    And change the RewriteBase for each of your directories.

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