.htaccess regex redirect and replace

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Going to show my lack of regex knowledge here but seem to be having trouble with the following:

I need to redirect the following example structure of a url:

www.example.com/blog-title-here/tags/this+is+a+long+tag+name

www.example.com/tag/this-is-a-long-tag-name

I need to redirect to just /tag and replace any instance of + with a -

anubhava · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-10 13:41:55Z

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You can use this recursive redirect rule as your very first rule in site root .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule "(?:.*/)?(tag/[^ +]*)[ +]+([^ +]*[ +].*)$" $1-$2 [N,NC,DPI]
RewriteRule "(?:.*/)?(tag/[^ +]*)[ +]+([^ +]*)$" /$1-$2 [L,R=301,NC,NE]

This will redirect http://localhost/blog-title-here/tag/this+is+a+long+tag+name to http://localhost/tag/this-is-a-long-tag-name

answered Sep 10, 2016 at 13:41

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Jamezn Over a year ago

This doesnt seem to effect the url in anyway when i put it into my .htacess file?

anubhava Over a year ago

This is tested and working on my Apache. Make sure this rule is placed before other rules. What is the exact URL you used for testing this?

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