New redirection

Resolved makistout
(@makistout)

4 years ago

Hello

I need to make the following redirection

/category/category_name/page_number to /category/category_name/page/page_number

I have created this regex rule

/category/(.*)$/(.*)$ to /category/$1/page/$2

but it doesn’t seem to work.

Please advice

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Plugin Author John Godley
(@johnny5)

4 years ago

Why do you have $ in the middle of the expression?
Thread Starter makistout
(@makistout)

4 years ago
Otherwise we get this (although we use ^ at the beginning of the expression)

https://domain/category/category_name/page/page/page/page/page/page/page/page/page/page/page/page/page/page/page/page/page/page/page/1
- This reply was modified 4 years ago by makistout.
Plugin Author John Godley
(@johnny5)

4 years ago

The $ indicates the end of the URL, so it cannot be used in the middle. You probably want to use (.*?) instead

Thread Starter makistout
(@makistout)

4 years ago

I use this /category/(.*?)/(.*?)$ to /category/$1/page/$2

or this ^/category/(.*?)/(.*?)$ to /category/$1/page/$2

but still have the problem

/category/category_name/page/page/page/page/page/page/page/page/page/page/page/page/page/page/page/page/page/page/page/1

as a result

Plugin Author John Godley
(@johnny5)

4 years ago

Yes, your expression is matching page. You will also need to modify it so that it doesn’t match page.

You can use https://regex101.com to build and test your expression

https://regex101.com/r/wxIUax/1

Thread Starter makistout
(@makistout)

4 years ago

John this is probably a 5 minutes work for you. Could I contribute somehow to get a solution?

Plugin Author John Godley
(@johnny5)

4 years ago

Sorry, I’m not trying to be difficult, but I don’t provide that kind of service. I get many, many, requests for these, and if each one took 5 minutes (which they often don’t) then I wouldn’t have much time left to do anything else.

The support page has references and examples that may be useful. Regular expressions are not specific to Redirection and there is a lot of information out there.

https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/

Thread Starter makistout
(@makistout)

4 years ago

Thanks John for your help 🙂

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