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1. titanas
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Hey,

   How to redirect something like /ab/ab/ab/ab => ab ?

   ab is actually a WordPress slug something like /wordpress-is-awesome/ so the actual problematic slug looks like this: /wordpress-is-awesome/wordpress-is-awesome/wordpress-is-awesome/wordpress-is-awesome/ and want to be redicted to /wordpress-is-awesome/ only

   A solution like (.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*) => $1 dosen't make sense because it conflicts with stuff like /tag/help/page/3

   Any ideas?

2. John
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   You'll need to be more specific with your regex so it only matches the exact URL you want to redirect. Also, you can use ^ and $ to match only the start and end of a URL.

3. titanas
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Thank for the reply.. that's the thing, i don't know how to be more specific. Can you help in an example like /wordpress-is-awesome/wordpress-is-awesome/wordpress-is-awesome/wordpress-is-awesome/ ?

   I'll play with ^ and $ and see what happens.

4. John
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Something like this would not match any other URLs:

   ^/wordpress-is-awesome/.*

   If you only have the one URL to match then there is no need to use a regex - just match the entire URL.

5. titanas
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   It's different URLs all the time following the same pattern... so it's ^/.*/.* or not? :)

6. John
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Then it looks like unless you can find a way to uniquely describe the URLs there is no single pattern that will fit. A regex is powerful but it won't fit all situations.

7. titanas
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Thanks John!

8. jrf
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Titanas,

   There is actually a way to do exactly what you want with regular expressions, though by the looks of the above thread, it is a lesser known feature:

   Source URL: ^(/[a-z0-9-]+){\1}+[/]?$
   Target URL: $1

   Explanation:
   () the regex remembers what is between brackets. With \1 you have the regex recall the remembered string and match that again one or more times - in this case '/wordpress-is-awesome' -. I put the \1 between {} to avoid the regex confusing it with a literal pattern.

   In the target use $1 as the starting / is already included in the match.

   Hope this helps!

   Smile,
   Juliette

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