Title: Help with regular expression Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # Help with regular expression * [sanguine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sanguine/) * (@sanguine) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-regular-expression/) * I can successfully redirect some pages but not all. I don’t know how to write the expression. * target: [http://websitename/foldername/abc123.html](http://websitename/foldername/abc123.html) Destination: [http://websitename/foldername](http://websitename/foldername) * can help me with this? * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/) Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * Thread Starter [sanguine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sanguine/) * (@sanguine) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-regular-expression/#post-6608192) * continue…. I wanted to have all files in the folder to be redirected to my destination. * what’s the expression? * [jashaw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jashaw/) * (@jashaw) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-regular-expression/#post-6608256) * I think this is what you’re asking for. target : /foldername/(.*) Destination:/ foldername/$1 * Thread Starter [sanguine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sanguine/) * (@sanguine) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-regular-expression/#post-6608315) * I tried, but cannot. * maybe I give the exact link: * target: [http://www.sanguineconsulting.com/WorkshopsNew/whatever123.html](http://www.sanguineconsulting.com/WorkshopsNew/whatever123.html) * Destination: [http://www.sanguineconsulting.com/workshops/](http://www.sanguineconsulting.com/workshops/) * could it be the file name whatever123.html. which have both characters and digit? can I still use (.*) * could it be the file name whatever123.html is still active when click, so it won’t get redirected? Should I move this file to a different location first, is it will have ‘page not found’, then do the redirection? * [jashaw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jashaw/) * (@jashaw) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-regular-expression/#post-6608429) * .* will include any character. * Redirection doesn’t care about the existence of files. It will very happily redirect from an existing file to a non-existent one so make sure you take appropriate caution. * Make sure you checked the regex option or it will be looking for an exact match. * You might try recreating your rules, [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/working-redirections-just-stop-working?replies=7](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/working-redirections-just-stop-working?replies=7) * If you are trying to redirect subfolders, see this link, [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-redirection-wildcard-expression?replies=7