Title: Regex redirection match string inside url
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Regex redirection match string inside url

 *  [hcchoi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcchoi/)
 * (@hcchoi)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/regex-redirection-match-string-inside-url/)
 * Hi,
    Setup the following for a redirection Source url: /au[/]?$ Regex: Y Target
   URL: /event/cloudsec-australia-2016/ HttpCode: 307 – Temporary Redirect
 * This works when user typed the following and get redirected to the target.
    [https://www.mydomain.com/au](https://www.mydomain.com/au)
   [https://www.mydomain.com/au/](https://www.mydomain.com/au/)
 * I have an issue that the regex also matches within the source url
    e.g. the following
   will also be redirected to the target [https://www.mydomain.com/survey/au/](https://www.mydomain.com/survey/au/)
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 * Last activity: [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/regex-redirection-match-string-inside-url/)
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