Rewriting basic: from specific url to another specific url-CodePudding

What I am asking is very basic and I think it should work but I do not know why it doesn't.

Basically, I need these urls(1) to 301 redirect to these others(2)

(1) /es/madrid/ => (2) /es/madrid-es/
(1) /es/ibiza/ => (2) /es/ibiza-es/

This is my approach:

RewriteRule ^/es/madrid/ https://example.com/es/madrid-es/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^/es/ibiza/ https://example.com/es/ibiza-es/ [R=301,L]

CodePudding user response：

RewriteRule ^/es/madrid/ https://example.com/es/madrid-es/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^/es/ibiza/ https://example.com/es/ibiza-es/ [R=301,L]

In .htaccess files, the URL-path that the RewriteRule pattern matches against, does not start with a slash. So the above directives will never match the requested URL, so won't do anything.

In other words, do it like this instead:

RewriteRule ^es/madrid/ https://example.com/es/madrid-es/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^es/ibiza/ https://example.com/es/ibiza-es/ [R=301,L]

Note that these rules redirect /es/madrid/<anything> - is that the intention? Otheriwse, to match the exactly URL-path only then include an end-of-string anchor. eg. ^es/madrid/$.

However, you could combine these two rules. For example:

RewriteRule ^(es)/(madrid|ibiza)/ https://example.com/$1/$2-$1/ [R=301,L]

Where the $1 and $2 backreferences correspond to the captured groups (parenthesised subpatterns) in the preceding RewriteRule pattern.

Aside: And taking this a step further for any two character language code and place you could do something like this:

RewriteRule ^([a-z]{2})/(\w )/ https://example.com/$1/$2-$1/ [R=301,L]

This would redirect /<lang>/<place>/<anything> to /<lang>/<place>-<lang>/ where <lang> is any two character language code.