Htaccess remove string from URL

Question

We've currently moved our site to a new server but re-formatted the menu item links.

The previous ones were:

www.example.com/products/module-home/something.html

and now they are:

www.example.com/products/something.html

What I would like to do is, if a user tried to visit a page which contains module-home in the URL, it will simply remove it and redirect them to the URL without it. Would the following RewriteRule rule be the best approach for this?

RewriteRule ^module-home/(.*)$ /$1 [L,R=301]

I know Joomla has it's own redirect manager built into the backend, however performance wise, I think modifying the .htaccess file would be better, however correct me if I'm wrong.

Justin Iurman · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-07 13:32:55Z

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Assuming your htaccess is in the root folder, you can put this rule in first position (right after RewriteEngine on or RewriteBase line)

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/module-home/?(.*)$ /$1/$2 [R=301,L]

answered Aug 7, 2014 at 13:32

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Marcus Hiles Over a year ago

Had a little bit of an issue trying to understand the logic. But got it after all. Thanks works great @Justin lurman

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