How to use parts of the old URL in a 301 redirect

Question

is it possible to keep certain parts of an URL and to rewrite the rest? With a .htaccess 301 redirect.

In my example I would like to rewrite URLs from this format

http://blog.example.com/post-name

to this one

http://example.com/2014/post-name

So far the year (2014) can be static because only a couple of links would be affected.

Thanks!

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 08 '14 at 20:42

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Keep in mind that this'll redirect every request to blog.example.com since it's just capturing anything after the slash and redirecting, so please clarify if you need it to be smarter, but..

RedirectMatch 301 ^/(.*)$ http://example.com/2014/$1

answered Nov 08 '14 at 20:42

Shane Madden

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To clarify for anyone else: I pointed the .blog subdomain to an empty folder in which I put a .htaccess file with the above line. Works perfectly. Thanks. – Øle Bjarnstroem Nov 08 '14 at 21:06

How to use parts of the old URL in a 301 redirect

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