how to redirect url?

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I am using apache2 + tomcat on ubuntu 10.4. I am running on tomcat server that has webapps listening on 8080

trying to redirect domain.com/category/post-name.html to new url >

domain.com/newcategory/blogs/category/post-name

what is the best possible way to achive this?

so far I have...

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/[a-zA-z0-9]+/[a-zA-z0-9]+/(.*)?\.html$
RewriteRule ^/[a-zA-z0-9]+/[a-zA-z0-9]+/(.*)?\.html$ http://www.domain.com/newcategory/blogs/$1 [R=301,NC,L]

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well, thank you for the links. I have checked them out. However, I am not only trying to get rid of just the ".html" part - I need to properly redirect over 20,000 posts the url redirect above seems as it would do the trick, but it doesnt work. So, I am trying to figure out if I am missing something. — bay, Oct 01 '12 at 10:32

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 01 '12 at 19:04

It looks like the post-name carries over to the redirected URL, and so does the category, but the newcategory/blogs part would have to be hardcoded because there's nothing to pull that from the old URL:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/newcategory/blogs
RewriteRule ^/?([^/]+)/([^/]+)\.html$ http://www.domain.com/newcategory/blogs/$1/$2 [L,R=301]

how to redirect url?

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