HTAccess replace string with hyphen

Question

I had a question about a problem I am having with a rewrite rule, I want to make a rewrite rule that gets everything after the hyphen, but it just gets the last word?

My Link:

http://www.website.com/home/24-nieuws/143-kip-kip-kip-donington.html

I have the following rule:

RewriteRule ^home/24-nieuws/(.*)-(.*).html$  http://www.website.com/$2 [R=301,L]

This rule gives me a weird output, well I find it weird, but It could because a hyphen is used as a regex character?

Output:

http://www.website.com/donington

It skips all of the text and just gets the last word? Does anyone know what I have to do to make it get everything between the first hyphen and the .html?

anubhava · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-14 08:50:19Z

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You can use this rule:

RewriteRule ^home/24-nieuws/[^-]*-(.+)\.html$  http://www.website.com/$1 [R=301,L,NC]

[^-]* is negated character class that match 0 or more non-hyphen characters. It will stop matching before first hyphen.

It is also possible to use a non-greedy quantifier to make it work:

RewriteRule ^home/24-nieuws/.*?-(.+)\.html$  http://www.website.com/$1 [R=301,L,NC]

RegEx Demo

edited Dec 14, 2017 at 8:50

answered Dec 14, 2017 at 8:46

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Brum Over a year ago

Oh thanks this works perfectly! I didn't know this, but now I do thanks very much! This will be a big help in the future :D

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