htaccess redirect based on the beginning of the path-CodePudding

I'm building a laravel project. The project itself has a "legacy" version with a whole different structure. It's logged that some users are trying to access a file that is not found in the new environment.

For a quick "fix", we want to redirect paths like

/media/22044/blablabla.pdf to /en/press

The quick solution is to use

Redirect 301 /media/22044/blabla.pdf /en/press

But we want the path behind /media/ is dynamic. I'm new with .htaccess stuff. Is there a way to do it?

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^public
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]

# this one works, but not dynamic
#Redirect 301 /media/2336/blabla.pdf /en/press

# failed experiments
#Redirect 301 (\/media)(.*)$ /en/press
#Redirect 301 ^/media/(.*)$ /en/press
#RewriteRule ^/media/(.*) /en/press [R=301,NC,L]
Redirect 301 /media/(.*) /en/press
</IfModule>

CodePudding user response：

You need to use a mod_rewrite RewriteRule directive (not Redirect) before your existing rewrite.

For example:

RewriteEngine on

# Redirect "/media/<anything>" to "/en/press"
RewriteRule ^media/ /en/press [R=301,L]

# Rewrite all requests to the "/public" subdirectory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^public
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]

The Redirect directive uses simple prefix-matching, not a regex. But is also processed later in the request.

And note that the URL-path matched by the RewriteRule pattern does not start with a slash, unlike the Redirect directive.

CodePudding user response：

With your shown samples and attempts please try following .htaccess rule file. Please make sure to clear your browser cache before testing your URLs.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^public [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/?$ public/$1 [L,NC]

###new redirect here...
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/.*/media/22044/blablabla\.pdf\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^  /en/press? [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(en/press)/?$ media/22044/blablabla\.pdf [NC,L]
</IfModule>