Can someone help me with RegEx?
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Hey!
I am having a tough time figuring this out, and I have already signed up for my RegEx course. So in the mean time, could you please help me?
I have two old URLs:
/faq
/faq.php
The new one is /faqs
How can I write a 301 redirect to include faq & faq.php in the same line? I basically want to capture /faq and anything beyond the q including the .php.
I thought this would work:
Redirect 301 /faq. http://www.blah.com/faqs
Using the period to catch everything after the q and redirect it to the /faqs page.
Extra credit: And why Redirect 301 vs. RedirectMatch 301? It is an Apache server and mod_ rewrite is on.
Thanks in advance!
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Yes, I bet. I just want to be able to know what I'm asking. lol
Thanks again for your help!
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-f is for file and -d is for directory, correct?
Correct.
And your very welcome
A course should help you understand RegEx a lot more but I still find myself looking up specific situations online.
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Thanks Oleg!!!
-f is for file and -d is for directory, correct?
I found a 5 hour course on Lynda.com on RegEx so I'll be doing that this evening.
Thanks again for your quick response. Much appreciated!!!
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RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^faq(.*) /faqs [L,R=301]That should do the trick
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I'm going to have to do a rule, aren't I? Basically to include (faq|faq.php) or something like that, huh? So a RewriteRule is going to have to be used instead of Redirect or RedirectMatch.
Please help!
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