Wanted: Service any htaccess wizzes out there?

[denchomsky]

Been looking for a solution to this but can find anything that specifically deals with this problem:

I have just rebuilt a site in Wordpress for a client, I have set up a bunch of 301's in htaccess from old site to new, but any old url with a number in it doesn't work, all the ones without numbers are fine.

example:

/index.php/news/15/rhs redirected to http://www.domain.com/news/rhs/

the folder/number /15/ stays in the redirected URl so it ends up:

http://www.domain.com/news/15/rhs/

Anyone know how to get around this?

current mod re-write

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Thanks

 

[mrt]

What do your other rewrite rules look like?

Feel free to PM with the real URLs if you'd rather keep them quiet - though it'd be nice to post an anonymised summary of the problem in the thread once sorted!

 

[DaveP]

Well you need to remove the second segment (the number) from the path using a RewriteRule like this (not tested but it should be right..):

RewriteRule ^(.*?)/?([0-9]+)(.*)$ /$1$2

 

[denchomsky]

Thanks for the help Dave, but in the end it was a browser issue and nothing to do with the redirect.

There was one redirect where the destination URL was wrong, so it was not getting completed properly, it sounds a bit bizarre, but it seems like Firefox had cached this folder structure, and whenever I tried a URL with the same amount of directories with a number folder it processed it the same way as the broken one.

I cleared the cache several times, so don't know how it stored this error.

I tried all the redirects in Chrome (something I probably should have done first before spending 3 hours looking for a solution on Stack Overflow) and they all worked fine, so this is the only explanation I have?