Title: Simple wildcard
Last modified: December 1, 2020

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# Simple wildcard

 *  Resolved [randaloulton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/randaloulton/)
 * (@randaloulton)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-wildcard/)
 * I’d like to redirect anything like:
 * [http://www.acme.com/edible.nsf/pages/milk](http://www.acme.com/edible.nsf/pages/milk)
 * to
 * [https://www.acme.com/milk](https://www.acme.com/milk)
 * I’m trying:
    SOURCE: /edible.nsf/pages/.* TARGET: /$1
 * (Gyazo screencap here: [https://gyazo.com/a6738b63cc6fdd5eaf1c129ef7867646](https://gyazo.com/a6738b63cc6fdd5eaf1c129ef7867646))
 * With query type set to regex. It doesn’t work, and it is doing my head in, as
   I feel like this is a simple thing and should work…?

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 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-wildcard/#post-13732340)
 * In what way doesn’t it work?
 * Your source is not capturing any data, so it won’t pass anything to the target.
 * You can find some examples of regular expressions here:
 * [https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/](https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/)

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 * Last activity: [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-wildcard/#post-13732340)
 * Status: resolved