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htaccess rewrite condition that uses regex

I'm a noob when it comes to regex. What I'm trying to accomplish is:

https://www.example.com/shop/product-floating-front-rotor-kit/

should redirect to

https://www.example.com/shop/product-matching-front-rotor/

product should be the name of the product, I have to do this for multiple products.

Edit: This is what I have so far, am I even close?

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^/shop/([a-z]+)-floating-front-rotor-kit/ ^/shop/$1-matching-front-rotor/
Solution 
  • RewriteRule ^/shop/([a-z]+)-floating-front-rotor-kit/ ^/shop/$1-matching-front-rotor/

    This is close, except that...

    • In .htaccess the URL-path matched by the RewriteRule pattern (first argument) does not start with a slash.

    • The substitution string has an erroneous ^ prefix. This should be an "ordinary" string, not a regex.

    • [a-z] does not match hyphens/dashes, which you state could occur in a product name.

    • You have not included an end-of-string anchor ($) on the end of the RewriteRule pattern, so any trailing string will be successful and discarded. (Is that the intention?)

    • This is an internal "rewrite", not a "redirect" as stated. You need to include the R flag. (An internal rewrite is unlikely to work here, since the target URL requires further rewriting.)

    Try the following instead. This should go at the top of the .htaccess file, immediately after the RewriteEngine directive.

    RewriteRule ^shop/([a-z-]+)-floating-front-rotor-kit/$ /shop/$1-matching-front-rotor/ [R=302,L]

    This is a 302 (temporary) redirect.