MrAnt

Hi Albert,

Thanks for the response. It looks like you have replaced my (.*) with ([a-z]+) which are very similar. The + would be 1 or more characters, compared to the asterisk I used which is 0 or more. The . in my case included any characters apart from line breaks, whereas [a-z] limits to lower case letters.

I was trying to address urls like https://caloriestar.com/gb/?s=chocolate so the [a-z]+ would not match as there is only the trailing slash before the query parameters.

In the end as the rewrite rules were working fine apart from the search I used the nginx rewrite functionality to resolve.

        location ~ "/(?<cn>[a-z]{2})/?$" {
                if ($arg_s != "") {
                        return 301 /$cn/search/$arg_s;
                }
                try_files $cn/$uri /index.php?$args&countrycn=$cn;
        }

Although I used the following code to change the Search URL, this did not seem to be picked up everywhere, so I write a shortcode that would output the correct code based on country selected.

function change_search_url_rewrite() {
	if ( is_search() && ! empty( $_GET['s'] ) ) {
		$country = get_query_var('cscountry');

		if ($country <> '') {
			$country = '/'.$country;
		}

		wp_redirect( home_url( $country."/search/" ) . urlencode( get_query_var( 's' ) ) );
		exit();
	}
}
add_action( 'template_redirect', 'change_search_url_rewrite' );

Putting this here in case it comes in useful to others in the future.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by MrAnt. Reason: Edited to mark as resolved