problem with .htaccess rewrite rule - .htaccess

I have url's like games/xbox/2
2 being the page number.
some url's are as follows games/xbox-360/2
i need the links to be rewritten.
here is the code i am using which works fine for the links with no - in them
RewriteRule games/([A-Za-z0-9]+)/?$ games/consoles.php?console=$1
RewriteRule games/([A-Za-z0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/?$ games/consoles.php?console=$1&page=$2
what needs to be added to the reg expression to make it also rewrite the links that have the - in them. Thanks

If you add the - right before the ] it will work. But a better method is to escape the - with a \ so you'll end up with [A-Za-z0-9\-]

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I have two URL conditions and I wanted to redirect them like this:
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Now the problem is, I am also using the URL for an older link like this one:
https://wwww.example.com/feeds/5bdb39711b41d479273e678a6f356603d7109ffc.xml
I wanted to avoid redirect with .xml extension here is my current redirect:
RewriteRule feeds/(.*)?$ https://wwww.example.com/direct_feed/$1 [QSA,L]
It works fine but I don't want to redirect it with .xml based URL.
My question is - is there a condition that can help me to avoid the rewrite if a parameter contains .xml in regX (.*)?$
You can use a negative lookbehind:
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I cant seem to get my htaccess code right for redirecting pages that appear like the below to go to a 410 page, eg:
www.domain.com/-c-23.html
www.domain.com/-c-12.html
www.domain.com/-c-755.html
Basically, I want a rule whereby anything where "-c-" comes directly after the slash of the domain gets sent to a 410. I have been trying to do this but my code isn't working, so far I have something like this:
RewriteRule ^/\-c-[0-9]+\.html$ - [G]
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You need to get rid of the leading slash in your regular expression. URI's sent through rules in htacccess files have the leading slash stripped off:
RewriteRule ^\-c-[0-9]+\.html$ - [G,L]
You also need the L flag to immediately stop rewriting. You could also be even more general:
RewriteRule ^-c- - [G,L]

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Our current htaccess setup correctly converts urls like this: site.com/page.php?sid=Friend to site.com/Friend
However, due to an unrelated oversight, we had almost all of our URLs double-indexed as site.com/Friend> Because the greater than sign is a special character it doesn't call page.php so the > needs to be stripped out in htaccess and can't be done on page.php. Compounding matters is that the way they're indexed is as: site.com/Friend%3E which also might need to be stripped out.
What we would like is to have another directive that looks for an ending of > (or %3E), strips it off, then redirects to the variable that's there without that ending > In essence so that site.com/Friend> (or site.com/Friend%3E) still points to site.com/Friend
Thank you for your help.
Add this to the top of your rules:
RewriteRule ^/?(.*)>$ /$1 [L,R=301]
You can use > because the URI gets decoded when matching in a RewriteRule.

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I am trying to get the follow urls to work
www.urlname.com/team/1-Test
www.urlname.com/team/1-Test/members
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RewriteRule ^team/([^-]+)-([^&]+)/members$ index.php?p=teammembers&team_name=$1&team_id=$2
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[^-] and [^&] includes the / so /members is included with that. you could either add / to your negation character groups like [^-/] and [^&/] so it doesn't match / or move the bottom one up and add [L] after it to tell apache this is the [L]ast rule to check if it matches.
The trouble is, your second rule is being satisfied by the first rule. You could simply switch them around and it will work:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^team/([^-]+)-([^&]+)/members$ index.php?p=teammembers&team_name=$1&team_id=$2
RewriteRule ^team/([^-]+)-([^&]+)$ index.php?p=teamprofile&team_name=$2&team_id=$1
Although, a slight change in the first rule will also address the problem:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^team/([^-]+)-([^/]+)[/]?$ index.php?p=teamprofile&team_name=$1&team_id=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^team/([^-]+)-([^/]+)/members[/]?$ index.php?p=teammembers&team_name=$1&team_id=$2 [L]
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mydomain.com/team/1-2/ - goes to index.php?p=teamprofile&team_name=1&team_id=2
mydomain.com/team/1-2 - goes to index.php?p=teamprofile&team_name=1&team_id=2
mydomain.com/team/1-2/members - goes to index.php?p=teammembers&team_name=1&team_id=2
mydomain.com/team/1-2/members/ - goes to index.php?p=teammembers&team_name=1&team_id=2

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Hi I'm not a programmer by any stretch of the imagination and am trying to do a multi 301 redirect in my htaccess file based on the following:
So I have a ton of urls all with similar naming conventions - here is a sample of 2.
http://www.hollandsbrook.com/garrett-at-gold/
http://www.hollandsbrook.com/garrett-ace-250/
These urls need to redirect to:
http://www.hollandsbrook.com/garrett-metal-detectors/garrett-at-gold/
http://www.hollandsbrook.com/garrett-metal-detectors/garrett-ace-250/
I could just redirect them 1 line at a time, but I'd like to use regex.
Here's what I was thinking so far but not working:
RewriteRule ^garrett-([a-z])/$ /garrett-metal-detectors/$1/ [R]
Basically i need to redirect any page right off the root that starts with "garrett-" to include the folder path of "garrett-metal-detectors".
Any thoughts would be MUCH appreciated. Many thanks in advance for your help.
if you want temprorary redirect use:
RewriteRule ^garrett\-([a-z0-9\-]+)/?$ /garrett-metal-detectors/garrett-$1/ [R=302,L]
if you want permanent redirect use:
RewriteRule ^garrett\-([a-z0-9\-]+)/?$ /garrett-metal-detectors/garrett-$1/ [R=301,L]
I'm am not an expert on Regular Expressions, but looks like your reg ex may be a bit off...
try:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^((garrett)(-[a-z0-9]).*)/$ /metal-detectors/$1/ [R]
This is looking fro anything starting with "garrett" followed by any letter/number/hyphen combo.
Note: having "garett" in the destination part give you a loop of redirects, so you may have to choose a different word, or remove it all together...

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