Question

I’m trying to setup a rewrite rule and I need it to apply to a large number of URL’s. How can I set a wildcard so that if a directory starts with a certain word ( like ‘how’ or ‘can’) , the rewrite is applied?

This is what I have currently and it is not working

RewriteRule ^/can(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/ [R=301,L]

Answer 1

Since you’re in a .htaccess file, you need to remove the contextual path prefix from the pattern (in this case probably /):

RewriteRule ^can(.*)$ http://www.example.com/ [R=301,L]