.htaccess 301 redirect with regex

Question

I am trying to fix a lot of errros in our old website regarding thing with product pages having multiple URLs associated with a single product.

I am hoping that I can use regular expressions in with a regular redirect 301 line but so far I cannot seem to get it to work.

Here is what I am trying:

redirect 301 /products/(.?)/(.?)/5702/(.*?).html http://mycompany.com/footwear/wolverine-boots-waterproof-durashocks-work-boots-2582-33390.html

Does anyone have any ideas as to what I am doing wrong?

Thanks much

Josh Pennington

Answer 1

The redirect directive doesn't take regular expressions. What you probably want to use instead is RedirectMatch.

Answer 2

you could use mod_rewrite

with something like:

RewriteEngine  on
RewriteRule ^/products/(.?)/(.?)/5702/(.*).html http://mycompany.com/footwear/wolverine-boots-waterproof-durashocks-work-boots-2582-33390.html [L,R=301]

can you give example of structure you are trying to redirect? es: /product/aa/bb/1234/aaaaaaaaaaa.html