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Help with .htaccess redirects

December 31st, 2005 · 3 Comments

(Warning: LazyWeb request)

Solved! See comments. Thank you, Ben.

The format of my post links has changed from

http://www.pencoyd.com/clock/2003/12/12.html#a293

to

http://www.pencoyd.com/clock/2003/12/12/TITLE/

I need to use a regular expression redirect to change my 2.5 years of previous posts to something not broken (and I need a better 404 page, but that’s easier and separate), so I need to change

.html#wildcard

to

/

in the .htaccess file.

That won’t get down to the individual post when I’ve had multiple posts in a day, but it won’t be totally off and broken, as it is now.

I hope to use Webmin (my ISP’s web-based config application) to make the change to the .htaccess file, rather than editing it manually, but I need the right format for the grep.

If this is second nature to any of my readers, I’d welcome a tip.

Tags: Blog management

3 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Ben Metcalfe // Dec 31, 2005 at 1:47 pm

    Try

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^clock/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2}).html(.*)$ /clock/$1/$2/$3 [R,L]

    (should all be on one line, in case WordPress word wraps the comment…)

  • 2 John Roberts // Jan 1, 2006 at 10:58 am

    Thanks! With one edit, that did the trick. I didn’t need the first clock/ because RewriteBase /clock/ was already set.

  • 3 Ben Metcalfe // Jan 2, 2006 at 7:53 pm

    Glad to be of help!

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