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Regex in Rack-Rewrite redirecting more than it should

I have a redirect setup like so:

r302 %r{(/example/.*)}i, 'http://new-domain.com/$1'

For this URL http://example.com/example it works great redirecting to http://new-domain.com/example

I would like to adapt this regex (or expression) to not redirect if the URL has more than one level of directory, such as http://example.com/admin/example

Solution

  • Basically we simply anchor the start of the string with ^. which matches at the start of a string and is zero-width:

    r302 %r{^(/example/.*)}i, 'http://new-domain.com/$1'