Regular expressions

Hi All,

If i want to redirect like this:

Code:

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RedirectMatch permanent ^/([^.]+).html$ http://www.same_domain.com/$1/

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ie /anything.html to /anything/

Is there anyway I can stop that rule working for /index.html?

I think Apache is redirecting www.domain.com to www.domain.com/index.html, then the rule changes it to www.domain.com/index/ which I don't really want.

Cheers,

Chris

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index/$ http://www.domain.com/index.html [R=301,L]

after that code, will either change the URL back to index.html and stay there, or it might go bonkers with the infinite loop.

Hmm, it didn't seem to do anything with that added - before or after...

I have it working like this:

Code:

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RedirectMatch permanent ^/([^.]+).html$ http://www.domain.co.uk/$1/
RedirectMatch permanent ^/index/$ http://www.domain.co.uk/index.php

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Which would be ok I guess..



Hmm, now I have it working with :

Code:

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RedirectMatch permanent ^/([^x]+).html$ http://www.crispen.co.uk/$1/

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which I believe is just matching anything without an 'x' - do you know how I can match anything that isnt 'index'. I tried [^(index)]+ and [^i^n^d^e^x]+ but they just do things without those letters, nothing to do with them in that order..

Don't you just lose mod_rewrite! lol

:)

Having been puzzling on that for about 3 days, I have decided that mod_rewrite is the work of satan - just invented to drive everyone crazy :)

Try using RewriteRule for doing the original redirect. Then redirecting the index/ back to index.html.

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([^x]+).html$ http://www.crispen.co.uk/$1/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^index/$ http://www.crispen.co.uk/index.html [R=301,L]

If that doesn't do it, I don't know what will.

Hmm, I think that configuration didn't work because of the extra bit that WordPress uses (RewriteRule . /index.php [L]) - I think you end up with infinite loop or no redirect...

Anyway, I have a couple of options that work now using 'RedirectMatch', so I think I'll go with that - I'm not sure my mental health could take doing any more of the with mod_rewrite! Thanks for you suggestions though Nintendo! :)