Question

RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^/(dir1|dir2|dir3)/(.*)$ /targetfile.php [R,L] 

http://www.somesite.com/dir1 -> http://www.somesite.com/targetfile.php
http://www.somesite.com/dir2 -> http://www.somesite.com/targetfile.php
http://www.somesite.com/dir3 -> http://www.somesite.com/targetfile.php

From what I’ve seen online, this should work. Unfortunately, it wont. Any insight?

Answer 1

If you want to use this in a .htaccess file, remove the leading slash from the pattern. And to match only full path segments, you have to alter the expression a little bit.

So try this:

RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^(dir1|dir2|dir3)(/|$) targetfile.php [R,L]