I have the following default EE .htaccess.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
# Enable Rewrite Engine
# ------------------------------
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# Redirect index.php Requests
# ------------------------------
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET.*index\.php [NC]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !/system/.*
RewriteRule (.*?)index\.php/*(.*) /$1$2 [R=301,L]
# Standard ExpressionEngine Rewrite
# ------------------------------
RewriteCond $1 !\.(css|js|gif|jpe?g|png) [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>I need to be able still have my old redirects working when I relaunch my site in EE, so I have some parts I need to strip from the url!
My old urls are like…
domain.com/xx/xx/channel/category/url-title-aNUMBER and next is where it should go to…
<a href="http://www.domain.com/en/us/toys/teddies/teddy-a120">http://www.domain.com/en/us/toys/teddies/teddy-a120</a> -> needs to reach -> <a href="http://www.domain.com/toys/teddies/teddy">http://www.domain.com/toys/teddies/teddy</a>or these
<a href="http://www.domain.com/en/us/contact">http://www.domain.com/en/us/contact</a> -> needs to reach <a href="http://www.domain.com/contact">http://www.domain.com/contact</a>
<a href="http://www.domain.com/contact">http://www.domain.com/contact</a> -> <a href="http://www.domain.com/contact">http://www.domain.com/contact</a>
<a href="http://www.domain.com/gh/zn/swimwear-womens/blue/blue-bikini-a11">http://www.domain.com/gh/zn/swimwear-womens/blue/blue-bikini-a11</a> -> <a href="http://www.domain.com/swimwear-womens/blue/blue-bikini">http://www.domain.com/swimwear-womens/blue/blue-bikini</a>
So as you can see, I want to strip the first two pairs of /(a-zA-Z{2})/(a-zA-Z{2}/ from a url and then if a url ends with -a(0-9) where 0-9 could be up to 3/4 figures!
Category and channel names can/may contain different cases, and also a - character in EE style.
Also, do I want these to be 301 redirects?
If anyone is able to help I would be delighted! Where do I add mod_rewrites to the file, and how come none I try work! :(