changing url structure with htaccess

Question

i have a url

http://domain.com/wallpaper-name-of-wallpaper-id.html

where wallpaper- is prefix of the url and name-of-wallpaper is title of the wallpaper while id is the actual id of the wallpaper. my current .hataccess file looks like.

RewriteRule ^wallpaper-([^/]*)\.html$ wallpaper.php?permalink=$1 [L]

but i want to change it to

http://domain.com/wallpaper/name-of-wallpaper-id.html

so user who will enter the old url will automatically sent to the new url with htaccess.

i have tried. RewriteRule ^wallpaper-([^/]*)\.html$ wallpaper/wallpaper.php?permalink=$1 [R,L]

but don't seems to work for me. any idea or help?

Looks like you changed the wrong side. Try replacing the - in the original rule with a / — Jonnix
– Jonnix, Commented May 7, 2015 at 22:11
@JonStirling do you mean RewriteRule ^(.*)/wallpaper/(.*)$ $1/wallpaper-$2 [R,L] — Angela Taylor
– Angela Taylor, Commented May 7, 2015 at 22:13
How did you take that from my comment? To be honest, I keep reading your question and I'm not actually sure what you're after. Are you after a rule replacement to replace your current rule to work with the new structure, or are you after just the rule to redirect the old URLs to the new ones? Or both / neither? — Jonnix
– Jonnix, Commented May 7, 2015 at 22:18
@JonStirling i wanted to convert asdf.com/prefix-any-string-{id}.html to asdf.com/prefix/any-string-{id}.html — Angela Taylor
– Angela Taylor, Commented May 7, 2015 at 22:28

anubhava · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-08 06:52:09Z

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Add a new redirect rule before existing rule:

Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^(wallpaper)-([^.]+\.html)$ /$1/$2 [R=302,L,NC]

RewriteRule ^wallpaper/([^.]+)\.html$ wallpaper.php?permalink=$1 [L,NC,QSA]

edited May 8, 2015 at 6:52

answered May 7, 2015 at 22:19

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3 Comments

Angela Taylor Over a year ago

thanks for your reply. however this worked for me: RewriteRule ^(wallpaper)-([^.]+\.html)$ http://domain.com/$1/$2 [R=302,L,NC] RewriteRule ^wallpaper/([^.]+)\.html$ wallpaper.php?permalink=$1 [L,NC,QSA]

Franco Over a year ago

Never use a 302, you'll zap all your link juice. Use a 301 instead.

anubhava Over a year ago

302 is for testing only the change otherwise browser will cache unwanted URLs. Once tested it can be changed to 301

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