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I cannot figure out how to replace a string in a htaccess file. I need to change all of the urls on the site, currently they are formatted like this.

site.com/218-111-home/straight-black-mid-length-ladies-purse.jpg

and I need to redirect them to targets like this:

site.com/111-home/straight-black-mid-length-ladies-purse.jpg

I have tried for the life of me to get it to work, but I basically do not know how to take off the first three numbers after the domain and the -

Regex has beaten me.

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  • What do you mean by "change the urls"? Do you want your users, when visiting the links like 218-111-home/ to be redirected to 111-home/ changing their browser address, or just be sent internally and silently to content at 111-home/? If you mean to physically change the links in your content, Apache URL rewriting can't actually do that... Commented Feb 11, 2014 at 21:43
  • I am looking for it to redirect the first link to the second link. Sorry I wasn't clear. Commented Feb 11, 2014 at 21:46

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You can try this RedirectMatch rule:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/[0-9]+-([0-9]+-.+)$ /$1
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That kills the existing images. The urls of the images have changed from the first url and now they are all like the second url. What I am trying to accomplish to redirect the first images to the new image path.
But this is what this rule is doing. It just strips 218- from the from of URL.
Correct it does, but it also strips it out of the urls like this, site.com/111-home/straight-black-mid-length-ladies-purse.jpg which is the new url structure.

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