Help me, please

Resolved Jhonny
(@masterpiece8931)

3 years ago
Hello, I created a redirect as follows:

/*/settings/ to redirect to another page. (regex enabled)

However, I have a page with /settings/notifications and I didn’t want the redirect to apply to it as well. And the redirect is working for her. What do I do?
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Plugin Author John Godley
(@johnny5)

3 years ago

/*/settings/ is not a regular expression. You should read https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/ for more details about regular expressions.

Thread Starter Jhonny
(@masterpiece8931)

3 years ago

I didn’t find any information that helps, how do I make terms after /settings/ not valid?

Plugin Author John Godley
(@johnny5)

3 years ago

The are examples of regular expressions at the bottom of the page, along with references to guides and tools you can use.

You will note in the examples that * is never on its own, and is usually something like .*. If you have a valid expression it may not match the other URL anyway.

You can use https://regex101.com/ to test your expression is correct.
Thread Starter Jhonny
(@masterpiece8931)

3 years ago
Right, John!

But I think it has no options for me, I wanted some character that would make the regex only stick to /settings/ so my other URLs with /settings/notifications wouldn’t redirect. I tried /.*/settings/ but it didn’t work either…

Very sad!

Thank you for your help.
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Plugin Author John Godley
(@johnny5)

3 years ago

If all you want is /settings/ then just use that as a plain redirect with no regular expression.
Thread Starter Jhonny
(@masterpiece8931)

3 years ago
My theme puts username before settings :/

Like /jhonny2882/settings/
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Plugin Author John Godley
(@johnny5)

3 years ago

Ok, it really helps to put accurate examples.

My original statement still applies – if you have a valid regular expression then it won’t match /settings/notifications. /*/settings/ is not valid
Thread Starter Jhonny
(@masterpiece8931)

3 years ago
/(.*)/settings/ is it a regular expression? Because it really redirects /username/settings well, the problem is that it is also valid for /settings/notifications/, is it an error on my server?
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Plugin Author John Godley
(@johnny5)

3 years ago

Change .* to .+ and it should work

Thread Starter Jhonny
(@masterpiece8931)

3 years ago

it didn’t, redirected to /my-account/notifications/ (this page doesn’t exist), the normal redirect was my-account and this happened when I tried /settings/notifications.

Plugin Author John Godley
(@johnny5)

3 years ago

/settings/notifications is not redirected by the above expression. You may need to clear all of your caches.

Thread Starter Jhonny
(@masterpiece8931)

3 years ago

So the correct expression is:/(.+)/settings/?

Thread Starter Jhonny
(@masterpiece8931)

3 years ago

Hi, I sent an email to john@redirection.me, did you receive it?

Plugin Author John Godley
(@johnny5)

3 years ago

Yes. The information you sent is for another URL that hasn’t been mentioned before and isn’t /settings/notifications. I don’t know what you are trying to do, and it seems to keep changing.

As mentioned on https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/ I don’t provide support for regular expressions. It’s something you need to do yourself. This thread is a good example of why I have that warning.

I would suggest that you list out all the conditions that you are trying to match and not match and then use https://regex101.com to see how they match. That website will tell you why they match and you can then modify the expression. When you have something that’s a bit nearer I can provide some advice.
Thread Starter Jhonny
(@masterpiece8931)

3 years ago
Hello John! Thank you so much for the guidance and support, I got it here!
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