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What's the best way to rewrite URLs as 301 redirects with the following conditions?

Sample old URLs to rewrite:
/c/garments-apparel/red-yellow-polka-dress-10_450
/c/shoes-and-accessories/black-suede-boots-02_901

Conditions:

  1. Change c to category
  2. Remove trailing number (including connecting dash) from URL (example: -10_450 and -02_901)

New URLs should be:
/category/garments-apparel/red-yellow-polka-dress
/category/shoes-and-accessories/black-suede-boots

Note that changes will be applied to an .htaccess file on a Wordpress environment.

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Reset to default
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You can have this rule just below RewriteEngine On line:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^c/([\w-]+/.+)-[\d_]+/?$ /category/$1 [L,NC,R=301]
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This makes it lose the category name of the URL eg: shoes-and-accessories or garments-apparel.
That must be due to bad cache in browser. On my apache this redirects http://localhost/c/garments-apparel/red-yellow-polka-dress-10_450 to http://localhost/category/garments-apparel/red-yellow-polka-dress
You're right! I refreshed my permalinks & it's redirecting correctly now. Thank you!
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you can use the regex

[-_]\d+

to replace the trailing numbers with "" (empty string) demo

then use the regex

\/c\/

and replace with /category/ demo

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