.htacsess remove url segement

#1 / Feb 21, 2012 12:40pm
Kaspar
30 posts
Yes I know there are lots of informations about this. I couldn’t get anything to work.

I have a few dead links because I once had a Multilang Addon installed which left behind a Language url segment and some external links are targeting this dead url. So I want to redirect them to the url without the language segment.

The Url with the Language segment looks like this:

http://toplevel.com/en/segement1/segement2/segement3

So I want to remove the /en/ segment from the url.

I Already have the index.php removed with:
```
RewriteEngine On
     
             # Removes index.php
             RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
             RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
             RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
             RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
```
I tried already lots of code snippets from the Web but none worked so far.

Thanks for your help.

#2 / Feb 21, 2012 5:03pm

glenndavisgroup

436 posts

Hi Kaspar,

Try the following:

RewriteEngine On
     
# Remove the /en/ from the URL and set a 301 permanent redirect for any URLs using it
RewriteRule ^en/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)?$ <a href="http://toplevel.com/$1/$2/$3">http://toplevel.com/$1/$2/$3</a> [R=301,NC,L]

# Removes index.php
RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

I hope that helps.

Mike

#3 / Feb 22, 2012 4:38am

Kaspar
30 posts

Thanks a lot.

It works like a charm 😊

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