.htaccess regex url redirection

Question

I'm looking for a regular expression for a .htaccess file where I can redirect one URL to another.

URL1: /dir/an-article-title-222

URL2: /dir/222/an-article-title

I would like URL1 to 301 redirect to URL2.

In highlevel language, I think I want to tell .htaccess to:

Any thoughts, suggestions, code are welcome!

Oussama Jilal · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-06 09:38:34Z

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Try using this rule :

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^dir/([^/]+)-([0-9]+)$ /dir/$2/$1 [L,R=301]

answered Sep 6, 2012 at 9:38

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donald123 · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-06 09:30:51Z

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RewriteRule ^/dir/([\w\d-]*)-([\d]+)$/ /dir/$2/$1 [L,R=301]

Try this, keep in mind that an-article-title by this regex allow a-z, 0-9 and -, for more chars edit the the part [\w\d-]

answered Sep 6, 2012 at 9:30

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