I like to change two kinds of URLS in my DotNetNuke setup:
/fr-ca/Anything to /fr/Anything
AND
/en-us/Anything to /en/Anything
I went into Host > Settings > Advanced > Friendly URLS and tried this
Match
.*fr-ca/(.*)
Replace with:
.*fr/(.*)
But this isn't working...?
EDIT: Based on the answer below I did...
Match
(.*/fr)-ca(/.*)
Replace:
$1$2
This made the url look the way I want but now it goes to a broken page?
I woudl highly recommend iFinity URLMaster to do what you want. I know it is not free but I hesitated a long time and finally got it. I can say it is worth every penny.
You'll need to use groups. Basically whatever is in () will get put into groups and these can be recalled by using a number i to recall the ith group appearing in the regex.
The exact way to recall groups varies from language to language, but I believe $GroupNumber should work.
So replace:
(.*fr)-ca(/.*)
with:
$1$2
Related
I need to redirect multiple pages based on a single section of the URL, so these pages:
site/type1
site/type1/page1
site/type1/page2
site/type1/page3
need to redirect to:
site/type2
site/type2/page1
site/type2/page2
site/type2/page3
In reality there is more than 4 pages involved.
I think i can use the trigger:
(.*)/type2(.*)
but I'm stumped on how to set the destination so it dynamically populates the rest of the URL with what was there on the previous page.
Any ideas welcome.
Thanks.
you can simply look for site\/type1 and replace it with site\/type2
I tested it with vim and it worked fine for me :%s/site\/type1/site\/type2/g
Hope it'll help you
Your language probably supports replacing with regex.
This is the regex you should use:
(.*\/)type1(\/.*|$)
This is a bit different from the one you proposed. Your regex will match type2 instead of type1, but you want to redirect from type1 to type2, right? Another thing I changed is group 2. If you don't want things like site/type1b to turn into site/type2b, then you should write the second group as \/.*|$.
For the replacement, you should use $1type2$2, which means "the stuff captured in group 1, followed by type2, followed by the stuff captured in group 2".
Here is an online demo of the above regex and replacement. You can use the "code generator" feature to generate the code that performs this replacement in your language, if you are not sure how to replace with regex.
I'm setting up URL Rewrite on an IIS and i need to match the following URLs using regex.
http://sub.mysite.com
sub.mysite.com
sub.mysite.com/
sub.mysite.com/Site1
sub.mysite.com/Site1/admin
but not:
sub.mysite.com/admin
sub.mysite.com/admin/somethingelse
sub.mysite.com/admin/admin
The site it self (sub.mysite.com) should not be "hardcoded" in the expression. Instead, it should be matched by something like .*.
I'm really blank on this one. I did find solutions to match the different URLs but once i try to combine them either none of them match or all of them do.
I hope someone can help me.
For your specific case, assuming you are matching the part after the domain (REQUEST_URI):
(?!/admin).*
(?!...) is a negative lookahead. I am not sure if it is supported in the IIS URL Rewrite engine. If not, a better approach would be to check for a complementary approach:
Or as #kirilloid said, just match /admin/? and discard (pay attention to slashes).
BTW. if you want to quickly test RegExps with a "visual" feedback, I highly recommend http://gskinner.com/RegExr/
([A-Za-z0-9]+.)+.com(?!/admin)/?([A-Za-z0-9]+/?)*
this should do the trick
i am transferring a friend's wordpress.com blog to a self-hosted install on my server. problem is, he has many videos embedded in his blog using a shortcode plugin that is not necessary on wordpress 3 (you need only to paste the plain URL to embed videos from YouTube, Vimeo, etc;
I've found a Search Regex plugin that will search & replace using regular expressions, but am unfamiliar with regex myself. how might i catch the url in a shortcode such as [youtube="URL"] and replace it with just the URL?
Thanks for any help you can provide!!
-Jenny
Are you trying to go from "[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNH56Vpg-A]" to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNH56Vpg-A?
This works if there's a white space between different URLs.
find: \[youtube=(\S*)\]
replace with: $1
It's difficult to replace every different service at once since it seems that their short codes are different. For Vimeo this would work. It allows a random number of white space between "vimeo" and URL. And it again needs the white space after closing "]".
find: \[vimeo\s+(\S*)\]
replace with: $1
Maybe theres more robust way to write the expression. (Which validates the correct syntax.) This one's pretty straightforward thought.
The actual regex syntax depend on the language used. Hope this helps.
All,
I've come across an interesting little quirk in one of my RewriteRules, which I wanted to resolve by the use of named back references. However from what I can see, this is not possible in Apache's mod_rewrite.
I have two incoming urls, each containing a key variable, which need to be rewritten to the same underlying framework action.
Incoming urls:
/users/list/page-2
/users/list/2
Desired rewrite endpoint
/?module=users&action=list&pagenum=2
I would have liked to do something like this
RewriteRule ^/(?P<module>([\w]+))/(?P<action>([\w]+))/(page-)?(?P<pagenum>([\d]+))$ /?module=${module}&action=${action}&pagenum=${pagenum} [L,QSA]
However Apache just doesn't want to play like that at all, and gives me null values in the places of the named backreferences. To get me round the problem I've used numerical references to the captured groups ($1, $2, $4)(but I'm almost halfway to the N=9 apache limit). So this isn't a show stopper for me.
I would just like to know, if named backreferences are available in Apache's mod_rewrite, and if they are, why does my RewriteRule's pattern not match?
Thanks,
Ian
THis might be useful:
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/rewrite/rewritemap.html
If #superspace's latest answer doesn't work, what I would suggest is routing all links that are not to direct files/directories and route them to an index page. Then setup a routing class which takes in the page name and does manual matching, so you can have your named capture regex array and list the templates or pages you want to feed.
If you have to go this way, let me know and I can offer some code from my classes.
No backreferences it seems, after looking into the mod_rewrite source.
I'd recommend using the RewriteMap option anyway instead of a long list of RewriteRules, as it will be much faster than iterating through a lengthy list.
I have a huge list of URL's, in the format:
http://www.example.com/dest/uk/bath/
http://www.example.com/dest/aus/sydney/
http://www.example.com/dest/aus/
http://www.example.com/dest/uk/
http://www.example.com/dest/nor/
What RegEx could I use to get the last three URL's, but miss the first two, so that every URL without a city attached is given, but the ones with cities are denied?
Note: I am using Google Analytics, so I need to use RegEx's to monitor my URL's with their advanced feature. As of right now Google is rejecting each regular expression.
Generally, the best suggestion I can make for parsing URL's with a Regex is don't.
Your time is much much better spent finding a libary that exists for your language dedicated to the task of processing URLs.
It will have worked out all the edge cases, be fully RFC compliant, be bug free, secure, and have a great user interface so you can just suck out the bits you really want.
In your case, the suggested way to process it would be, using your URL library, extract the element s and then work explicitly on them.
That way, at most you'll have to deal with the path on its own, and not have to worry so much wether its
http://site.com/
https://site.com/
http://site.com:80/
http://www.site.com/
Unless you really want to.
For the "Path" you might even wish to use a splitter ( or a dedicated path parser ) to tokenise the path into elements first just to be sure.
tj111's current solution doesn't work - it matches all your urls.
Here's one that works (and I checked with your values). It also matches, no matter if there is a trailing slash or not:
http:\/\/.*dest\/\w+/?$
/http:\/\/www\.site\.com\/dest\/\w+\/?$/i
matches if they're all the same site with the "dest" there. you could also do this:
/\w+:\/\/[^/]+\/dest\/\w+\/?$/i
which will match any site with any protocal (http,ftp) and any site with the /dest/country at the end, and an optional /
Note, that this will only work with a subset of what the urls could legitimately be.
Try this regular expression:
^http://www\.example\.com/dest/[^/]+/$
This would only match the last three URLs.