We've got some incoming URLs that needs to be redirected, but we are having trouble with URLs that contains pluses (+).
For example any incoming URL must be redirected to the Homepage of the new site:
/eng/news/2005+01+01.htm
Should be redirected to to the home page of the new site
/en/
Using UrlRewriter.net we've set up a rule which works with 'normal' URLs but does not work for the above
<redirect url="~/eng/(.+)" to="/en/index.aspx" />
However it works fine if i change the incoming URL to
/eng/news/2005-01-01.htm
What's the problem and can anyone help?
I don't know about UrlRewriter.net, and I'm not sure which regex syntax it uses. I give some hint based on Perl regex.
what is the ~ at the beginning? Perhaps you mean ^, i.e. beginning of the string.
(.+) matches any character repeated one or more time; it does not match the + sign as you want
This is one way to write a (Perl) regex matching URLs starting with the string /eng/ and containg a + sign:
^\/eng\/.*\+.*
I hope this helps.
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I need a regular expression for IIS URL Rewrite that will process the rule only when the expression matches any bit of the URL EXCEPT a specific sub-root directory.
Example:
www.mysite.com/wordpress - process rule on any URL that starts with /wordpress after the domain name
www.mysite.com/inventory - do not process rule on any URL that starts with /inventory after the domain name
Tried .*(?<!^\/inventory\/.*) but it still matches the entire string.
You need a lookahead rather than lookbehind. Something like this I think:
^([^/]*/){1}(?!inventory\b)
Where you change 1 to 2 when the exclusion is needed at the next lower sublevel, etc.
I have two URLs with the patterns:
1.http://localhost:9001/f/
2.http://localhost:9001/flight/
I have a site filter which redirects to the respective sites if the regex matches. I tried the following regex patterns for the 2 URLs above:
http?://localhost[^/]/f[^flight]/.*
http?://localhost[^/]/flight/.*
Both URLS are getting redirected to the first site, as both URLs are matched by the first regex.
I have tried http?://localhost[^/]/[f]/.* also for the 1st url. I am Unable to get what am i missing . I feel that this regex should not accept any thing other than "f", but it is allowing "flight" as well.
Please help me by pointing the mistake i have done.
Keep things simple:
.*/f(/[^/]*)?$
vs
.*/flight(/[^/]*)?$
Adding ? before $ makes the trailing slash with optional path term optional.
The first one will be caught with following regex;
/^http:[\/]{2}localhost:9001\/f[^light]$/
The other one will be disallowed and can be found with following regex
/^http:[\/]{2}localhost:9001\/flight\/$/
You regex has several issues: 1) p? means optional p (htt:// will match), 2) [^/] will only match : in your URLs since it will only capture 1 character (and you have a port number), 3) [^light] is a negated character class that means any character that is not l, i, g, h, or t.
So, if you want to only capture localhost URLs, you'd better use this regex for the 1st site:
http://localhost[^/]*/f/.*
And this one for the second
http://localhost[^/]*/flight/.*
Please also bear in mind that depending on where you use the regexps, your actual input may or may not include either the protocol.
These should work for you:
http[s]{0,1}:\/\/localhost:[0-9]{4}\/f\/
http[s]{0,1}:\/\/localhost:[0-9]{4}\/flight\/
You can see it working here
I'm struggling with forming a regex that would match:
Just domain in case of URL
Whole string in case of no URL
Acceptance test (regex should match bold text):
http://mozart.co.uk
https://avocado.si/hmm
http://www.qwe123qwe.com
Starbucks
Benchmark 123
So far I've come up with this:
([^\/\/]+)(?:,|$)
It works fine, but not for URLs with trailing slash on the end. How can I modify the expression to include full path (everything on the right side of http(s)://) as well? Thank you.
This regex will match them if it starts with http:// or https:// until the next slash. If it doesn't start with http:// nor https:// then it will match the whole string. Close enough?
(?:^https?:\/\/([^\/]+)(?:[\/,]|$)|^(.*)$)
I should note that most languages have functions built in to properly parse URLs and these are preferable.
You should note that I've got 2 sets of capturing parentheses, so depending on your language that may be significant.
Maybe that ^(http[s]?:\/\/)?(.*)$. Play here: https://regex101.com/r/iZ2vL4/1
This will have Matching groups, the domain you want will be in the 4th matching group.
/^((http[s]?|ftp):\/\/)?\/?([^\/\.]+\.)*?([^\/\.]+\.[^:\/\s\.]{1,3}(\.[^:\/\s\.]{1,2})?(:\d+)?)($|\/)([^#?\s]+)?(.*?)?(#[\w\-]+)?$/mg
Regex101.com workbench to check out your URLs just paste them in the "TEST STRING" Textbox to test it out.
Don't recall where I got this... so I don't know who to credit. But it's pretty slick!
I'm basically not in the clue about regex but I need a regex statement that will recognise anything after the / in a URL.
Basically, i'm developing a site for someone and a page's URL (Local URL of Course) is say (http://)localhost/sweettemptations/available-sweets. This page is filled with custom post types (It's a WordPress site) which have the URL of (http://)localhost/sweettemptations/sweets/sweet-name.
What I want to do is redirect the URL (http://)localhost/sweettemptations/sweets back to (http://)localhost/sweettemptations/available-sweets which is easy to do, but I also need to redirect any type of sweet back to (http://)localhost/sweettemptations/available-sweets. So say I need to redirect (http://)localhost/sweettemptations/sweets/* back to (http://)localhost/sweettemptations/available-sweets.
If anyone could help by telling me how to write a proper regex statement to match everything after sweets/ in the URL, it would be hugely appreciated.
To do what you ask you need to use groups. In regular expression groups allow you to isolate parts of the whole match.
for example:
input string of: aaaaaaaabbbbcccc
regex: a*(b*)
The parenthesis mark a group in this case it will be group 1 since it is the first in the pattern.
Note: group 0 is implicit and is the complete match.
So the matches in my above case will be:
group 0: aaaaaaaabbbb
group 1: bbbb
In order to achieve what you want with the sweets pattern above, you just need to put a group around the end.
possible solution: /sweets/(.*)
the more precise you are with the pattern before the group the less likely you will have a possible false positive.
If what you really want is to match anything after the last / you can take another approach:
possible other solution: /([^/]*)
The pattern above will find a / with a string of characters that are NOT another / and keep it in group 1. Issue here is that you could match things that do not have sweets in the URL.
Note if you do not mind the / at the beginning then just remove the ( and ) and you do not have to worry about groups.
I like to use http://regexpal.com/ to test my regex.. It will mark in different colors the different matches.
Hope this helps.
I may have misunderstood you requirement in my original post.
if you just want to change any string that matches
(http://)localhost/sweettemptations/sweets/*
into the other one you provided (without adding the part match by your * at the end) I would use a regular expression to match the pattern in the URL but them just blind replace the whole string with the desired one:
(http://)localhost/sweettemptations/available-sweets
So if you want the URL:
http://localhost/sweettemptations/sweets/somethingmore.html
to turn into:
http://localhost/sweettemptations/available-sweets
and not into:
localhost/sweettemptations/available-sweets/somethingmore.html
Then the solution is simpler, no groups required :).
when doing this I would make sure you do not match the "localhost" part. Also I am assuming the (http://) really means an optional http:// in front as (http://) is not a valid protocol prefix.
so if that is what you want then this should match the pattern:
(http://)?[^/]+/sweettemptations/sweets/.*
This regular expression will match the http:// part optionally with a host (be it localhost, an IP or the host name). You could omit the .* at the end if you want.
If that pattern matches just replace the whole URL with the one you want to redirect to.
use this regular expression (?<=://).+
All,
I am new to REGEX world...
I know that there are lot of regex avail for validating the common URL with http in it.
But I am looking for a regex to validate the URL in the following formats(without HTTP/HTTPS):
www.example.com/user/login
www.example.com
www.exmaple.co.xx
www.example.com/user?id=234&name=fname
in case if the URL contains only,
www.example(without the domain - .com OR .co.xx)
example.com (without "www")
I should throw an error to the user.
any help would be highly appreciated...
Thanks
Raj
This regex will pass your first set, but not match the second set:
^www\.example\.(com|co.xx)(/.*)?$
In English, this regex requires:
starts with www.example.
followed by either com or co.xx
optionally followed by / then anything
You could be more prescriptive about what can follow the optional slash by replacing (/.*) with (/(user|buy|sell)\?.*) etc