How to remove only part of URl string using apache url rewrite?

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I have thousands of URLs that look like this:

http://www.domain.com/here-is-a-product-ab00007a1.html

The number at the end of the URL (before the .html) is the SKU. The site has recently been relaunched and these numbers no longer exist in the URLs.

I would like to redirect all URLs like this to their new version which does not include the SKU, example:

http://www.domain.com/here-is-a-product.html

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.

===== EDIT =====

The actual sku format is like so:

aa00000a00

There are always 2 letters, followed by 5 numbers, followed by 1 letter, followed by 2 numbers.

The sku is always 10 characters long.

So is there any difference between the SKU and the last word in a product? Like are SKU's always end in a number? — Jon Lin
– Jon Lin, Commented Aug 14, 2012 at 0:45
Yeah, the sku is always the same format. Starts with two letters, has a series of numbers, then has a letter and a number at the end. — Nathan
– Nathan, Commented Aug 14, 2012 at 0:53
FYI, the original example of the sku was not precise, so I edited the question. Please see the EDIT. — Nathan
– Nathan, Commented Aug 14, 2012 at 0:56

Jon Lin · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-14 00:55:02Z

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Try putting this in the htaccess file in your document root:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)-[a-z]{2}[0-9]{5}[a-z][0-9]{2}\.html$ /$1.html [L,NC]

You can also put that in your vhost/server config if you'd rather do that, just remove the leading slash from the rule's target so that it's simply: $1.html

answered Aug 14, 2012 at 0:55

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Nathan Over a year ago

Worked perfectly! I had to add a R=301 for it to resolve, but otherwise it's perfect!! Thank you!

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