Question

I’m converting a site over from WordPress to a custom CMS and I’m trying to figure out how to handle all of the image paths that are within posts.

The URL structure is http://site.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/image-name.jpg

I need to get it in the form of http://site.com/uploads/image-name.jpg

This is what I’ve got so far:

RewriteRule ^wp-content/uploads/([0-9-])/([0-9-])/([A-Za-z0-9-_]+)/?$ uploads/$3 [R=301,L]

It doesn’t seem to be working though, what am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Almost. You’re middle to groupings only match a single digit or -. You need a + after them:

RewriteRule ^wp-content/uploads/([0-9-]+)/([0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-_.]+)/?$ /uploads/$3 [R=301,L]

And you’ll want a slash before uploads/ and you need to include a . as part of the final grouping (to match the extension).