Thanks. I will review this as well.
The site currently has at least 7000 potential routes, so i want to
ensure I understand what I'm doing. :)
It also has a few other rewrites to promote http to https, and to
redirect alias domain names, so I am somewhat timid to make the changes.
But now that I'm in my 70s, its about time I learned apache a little
more. :)
I'll get back to you all once its in place.
On 2025-06-08 16:27, Doug Maxwell via linux wrote:
On 11:19 Sun 08 Jun , Dianne Skoll via linux wrote:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule "^/oldsetname/(.*)" "/newset/$1" [L,R]
That will work. The quotes aren't strictly necessary, and if this is a
permanent redirect I'd force the 301 response (302 is the default,
which is a temporary redirect). I'd also add NC if you need a
case-insensitive match on the left. If your URLs use anchors (#), add
the NE flag to prevent hex escapes of those. Finally, if your site
uses query params, use QSA to preserve them. So it would look like
this if you need all of those flags:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/oldsetname/(.*) /newset/$1 [L,R=301,NC,NE,QSA]
That rule does assume you always have at least a trailing slash,
however (.* can match zero characters) - so if you just want to
redirect a request with no trailing path and with or without the
trailing slash, add a second rule above the first to handle that case:
RewriteRule ^/oldsetname/?$ /newset [L,R=301,NC]
Then you can change .* (zero or more chars) to .+ (one or more chars)
in the second match, since you are now assuming you always have a
trailing path. All together:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/oldsetname/?$ /newset [L,R=301,NC]
RewriteRule ^/oldsetname/(.+) /newset/$1 [L,R=301,NC,NE,QSA]
Doug
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