I have on my website many pdf's that ends with a digit although they are the same pdf.
I want to add a Canonical Link via .htaccess (using Files or FilesMatch) to the pdf's that ends with a digit to the corresponding pdf
I think the pattern needs to be {anything}-{digit}.pdf
Ex:
<Files my-pdf-name-ends-with-1.pdf>
Header add Link '<https://www.website.com/pdf/my-pdf-name-ends-with.pdf>; rel="canonical"'
</Files>
<Files my-pdf-name-ends-with-2.pdf>
Header add Link '<https://www.website.com/pdf/my-pdf-name-ends-with.pdf>; rel="canonical"'
</Files>
<Files newpdf45-that-ends-with-2.pdf>
Header add Link '<https://www.website.com/pdf/newpdf45-that-ends-with.pdf>; rel="canonical"'
</Files>
<Files newpdf45-that-ends-with-77.pdf>
Header add Link '<https://www.website.com/pdf/newpdf45-that-ends-with.pdf>; rel="canonical"'
</Files>
<Files other-pdf-name-that-ends-with-digit-45.pdf>
Header add Link '<https://www.website.com/pdf/other-pdf-name-that-ends-with-digit.pdf>; rel="canonical"'
</Files>
<Files other-pdf-name-that-ends-with-digit-34.pdf>
Header add Link '<https://www.website.com/pdf/other-pdf-name-that-ends-with-digit.pdf>; rel="canonical"'
</Files>
Thank you!
My solution
<FilesMatch "^(?<uripart>[^0-9]+)(-)[0-9]+\.pdf$">
<If "%{REQUEST_URI} =~ m#^/path/to/pdfs/#">
RewriteRule .* - [E=FILENAME:https://%{HTTP_HOST}/path/to/pdfs/%{ENV:MATCH_URIPART}\.pdf]
Header set Link '<%{FILENAME}e>; rel="canonical"'
</If>
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "^(?<uripart>[^0-9]+)\.pdf$">
<If "%{REQUEST_URI} =~ m#^/path/to/pdfs/#">
RewriteRule .* - [E=FILENAME:https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}]
Header set Link '<%{FILENAME}e>; rel="canonical"'
</If>
</FilesMatch>