This is probably dead simple, but I can't seem to find an article that addresses exactly what I need done. I already have an existing htaccess page with mod_rewrite rules applied.

I need an htaccess rule to turn this URL
http://www.sitename.com/archive/2008...Here/main_feed
into this URL
http://www.sitename.com/archive/2008...icle_Name_Here

I require a rewrite rule that will apply to all incoming traffic with the /main_feed at the end of it, regardless of URL.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Originally Posted by wedgin

This is probably dead simple, but I can't seem to find an article that addresses exactly what I need done. I already have an existing htaccess page with mod_rewrite rules applied.

I need an htaccess rule to turn this URL
http://www.sitename.com/archive/2008...Here/main_feed
into this URL
http://www.sitename.com/archive/2008...icle_Name_Here

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

It looks like you just want to clip 'main_feed' off the end?

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)main_feed$
RewriteRule .* %1 [L]


That should do it. I did test it, but not all Apache installations are the
same, so yah never know.


Bompa

Thanks for the help. Unfortunately that definitely did not work. I loaded it up and it gave my whole site an internal 500 error. Is there a configuration that I might need to change?

What I do on my site to simplify an address is go into htaccess and add a rule:

 Redirect /archive/2008...Here/main_feed http://www.sitename.com/archive/2008...icle_Name_Here

If you go to the address that you want to end up with, you end up at the site address you want to change. Great for shortening up a url full of page.php?foo=bar&stuff=things that cause errors in an html validator.

Might this meet your needs?

Unfortunately Larry I require something that will cover all incoming URLs. My CMS keeps appending that to the URLs in my RSS feed, so I need it to be able to handle all URLs going forward and not single instances.

Anyone else have any insight on how to do this? I tried mucking around with RewriteRules and redirects and could not find a solution. It seems like such a simple task, but I can't seem to find any tutorials on doing exactly what I'm trying to do.