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Permanent redirect with variables

I need some help - I am switching to a new system with my ecommerce website but this system has a new URL structure. I really want to be able to redirect the old pages to the new ones. I have too many pages to do it manually with 301 redirects so wanted to know if it would be possible to do with redirects with variables. If anyone can help me I will be in your debt.

Here is what I am trying to do (the stuff in {} are variables)

I need to change the product url from

/product/{Category-Name}/{URL}.html to /{URL}.html

I need the Category URL to change from

/ecategory/{Category-ID}/{URL}.html to /{URL}.html

and the manufacturers URL to change from

/manu/{URL}.html to /{URL}.html

So I think I will need to use the RewriteRule but I am not sure about the variables.

Any help will be very appreciated.

hielo

Try:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule   "^/?(product|ecategory|manu)/([^\/]+)/(.+?)\.html)$"  "/$3.html"  [R=301,L]

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Adam Wassall

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Hi

This gives me an internal server error. I have tried it without the " and same.

Thanks

gheist

Can you post line from error log?

Adam Wassall

ASKER

sure. Here it is

[Fri Jul 17 22:48:35.072132 2015] [core:alert] [pid 32062] [client 82.38.158.235:65201] /home/dwasep/public_html/.htaccess: RewriteRule: cannot compile regular expression '^/?(product|ecategory|manu)/([^\\/]+)/(.+?)\\.html)$'

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gheist

Parentheses dont match
And "redirect with variable" should be temporary.

Ray Paseur

Just to be clear, it appears that all of the original paths need to be rewritten like this:

FROM...                                TO...
/product/{Category-Name}/{URL}.html    /{URL}.html
/ecategory/{Category-ID}/{URL}.html    /{URL}.html
/manu/{URL}.html                       /{URL}.html

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It looks like what you need to do is simply eliminate these components from the original paths?

/product/{Category-Name}
/ecategory/{Category-ID}
/manu

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This would seem to imply that there will never be a collision on any subset of the existing /product, /ecategory or /manu paths, right?

Adam Wassall

ASKER

Great that worked brilliantly. Thank you.