Title: WordPress duplicate page question
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# WordPress duplicate page question

 *  Resolved [Ammalgam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ammalgam/)
 * (@ammalgam)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-duplicate-page-question/)
 * Frustrating because it seems like it should be simple.
 * Client had a data snafu and a lot of merged pages in WordPress.
 * domain.com/king-2
    domain.com/king
 * are going to the same page.
 * Client wants to redirect all the -2 pages to the non -2 pages
 * So:
 * domain.com/king-2 -> domain.com/king
 * How could i use .htaccess to set up a rule to do this for all -2 pages?
 * Thanks…

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-duplicate-page-question/#post-2868160)
 * Possibly this:
 *     ```
       RewriteRule ^(.*)-2$ http://domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
       ```
   
 * I didn’t test it.
 *  Thread Starter [Ammalgam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ammalgam/)
 * (@ammalgam)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-duplicate-page-question/#post-2868196)
 * It didn’t work. Thanks for the suggestion though…
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-duplicate-page-question/#post-2868223)
 * Did you put the rule above your WordPress lines? I tested it on my server and
   it works fine.
 *  Thread Starter [Ammalgam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ammalgam/)
 * (@ammalgam)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-duplicate-page-question/#post-2868232)
 * Yeah I made it the first line…
 *  Thread Starter [Ammalgam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ammalgam/)
 * (@ammalgam)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-duplicate-page-question/#post-2868237)
 * aaah fixed
 * RewriteRule ^(.*)-2/$ [http://www.example.com/$1](http://www.example.com/$1) [
   L,R=301]
 * The slash after -2 was missing
 * THANKS!!
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-duplicate-page-question/#post-2868273)
 * Silly servers.
 * I would do this:
 *     ```
       RewriteRule ^(.*)-2/$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]
       RewriteRule ^(.*)-2$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]
       ```
   
 * That way if you go to domain.com/king-2 AND domain.com/king-2/ you’ll work
 * (yes, you could do `^(.*)-2(.*)$` or some variant, but I’d worry about catching
   too many false positives)
 *  Thread Starter [Ammalgam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ammalgam/)
 * (@ammalgam)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-duplicate-page-question/#post-2868283)
 * Thanks… makes sense…

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 * [htaccess](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/htaccess/)
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 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 7 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Ammalgam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ammalgam/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-duplicate-page-question/#post-2868283)
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