Regular expressions

[r2d2]

Hi All,

If i want to redirect like this:

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

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

[Nintendo]

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.

[r2d2]

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

I have it working like this:

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

Which would be ok I guess..



Hmm, now I have it working with :

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

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..

[Masetek]

Don't you just lose mod_rewrite! lol

[r2d2]

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

[Nintendo]

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.

[r2d2]

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!