Fast .htaccess fix?

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How would I modify my .htaccess to send http://rpgs.biz/rpg-test to just http://rpgs.biz/test

Here's my current .htaccess

Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / rewriterule ^rpg-([^&]+)$ index.php?name=$1 [L]

I greatly appreciate any help, thanks!

See my posts here stackoverflow.com/questions/20034636/… and here stackoverflow.com/questions/19961123/…. They should help give you some direction. — m59
– m59, Commented Dec 17, 2013 at 3:10

Jon Lin · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-17 03:26:16Z

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If your current htaccess is taking rpg-(something) and passing the "something" into index.php, you'll need to change that as well. Maybe something like:

Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^rpg-([^/]+)$ /$1 [L,R=301] # this is your old rule, modified RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^([^/]+)$ index.php?name=$1 [L]

answered Dec 17, 2013 at 3:26

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Sativa Diva Over a year ago

This is exactly what I needed, thanks! Any ideas how to take this a step forward and create a subdomain instead? for example "rpgs.biz/test to test.rpgs.biz"

Jon Lin Over a year ago

@SativaDiva if you are mapping everything to index.php?name= then you don't need to deal with any /test path. Match against the %{HTTP_HOST} and use %1 to backreference the match

Sativa Diva Over a year ago

I feel like I'm starting to get the hang of it but the last sentence confused me, could you edit the code above with an example of what that would look like? I really appreciate the help so far, you've really made my week! :)

Jon Lin Over a year ago

Try doing a search for "htaccess subdomain"

Joshua Walcher · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-17 02:52:01Z

This should work:

Redirect 301 /rpg-test http://rpgs.biz/test

But if you need to retain the files after /rpg-test, such as /rpg-test/cart.php or something, then you'd do:

RewriteRule ^rpg-test/?(.*) http://rpgs.biz/test/$1 [R=301,L]

user4035 · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-17 03:22:17Z

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If you want a simple redirect, it's easy:

Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^rpg-([^&]+)$ /$1 [L,R=301]

edited Dec 17, 2013 at 3:22

answered Dec 17, 2013 at 2:53

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Joshua Walcher Over a year ago

Sidebar: If it's a live site, you should always add the 301 in there so that you don't lose any search engine page ranking.

Sativa Diva Over a year ago

Very close, but let's say rpg-"test" is generated from ^rpg-([^&]+)$, simply removing rpg- so it's just ^([^&]+)$ didn't work.

user4035 Over a year ago

@SativaDiva In this case, you need to change your RewriteRule, so you are redirected from rpg-(whatever) to /whatever. See the update.

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