Anyone good with regex / rewrites ?

[Adam H]

Im trying to do is change a format of member page URL but have tried a couple of things now and im confusing myself, could do with a fresh pair of eyes if possible

Currently the URL's look like this :

https://www.domain.com/members/randomusername-u101252.html

So the base URL is /members/ , then username, then -u followed by the actual user ID.

Id like to strip everything but the ID so it would look like:

https://www.domain.com/members/101252/

Something like this i guess

RewriteRule ^members/([^\.]+)\.html$ /members/$1 [R=301,L]

But the above only removes the .html from the end and not everything else.

Any help would be grand

 

[Edwin]

Can the username theoretically contain "-u" within it?

And are all the member IDs always going to be exactly 6 digits, and directly followed by ".html"?

 

[RobM]

RewriteRule ^members/(.*)-u(.*).html$ /members/$2/ [R=301,L]

 

[Adam H]

Can the username theoretically contain "-u" within it?

And are all the member IDs always going to be exactly 6 digits, and directly followed by ".html"?

RewriteRule ^members/(.*)-u(.*).html$ /members/$2/ [R=301,L]

@RobM , Hero thank you. thats actually alot simpler than I thought it was going to be .

Thanks for the reply Edwin, Robs answer got it.

 

[Edwin]

No problem. I can't figure out whether his will break if the username happens to contain "-u" but I'm sure you can test for that easily enough.

 

[Adam H]

It should be ok in this instance but I get what your saying We are just rewriting from an old system and redirecting to the new one, so someone lands on

members/randomusername-u101252.html

They are redirected to the new structure

members/101252/

So the username isnt actually used at all on the new setup at all , I just needed the ID's to match as a form of redirecting as the user id's are the same on both new and old.

Its working as it should so I'm happy

 

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