.htaccess rewrite rule not working - how to fix?

Question

I am trying to redirect everything with a link of /Drug-Charges/ to simply /

I've been trying both 301 redirects as well as Rewrite Rules and have had no luck.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/Drug-Charges/(.*) [NC]
RewriteRule ^/Drug-Charges http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

What am I doing wrong here? I've enabled the rewrite engine and everything.

Here's the whole top portion:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.aspx$ $1.html [R=permanent]
RewriteRule ^Landing-Pages/(.*) County-Resources/$1 [R=permanent]
#RewriteRule ^Practice-Areas/Sex-Crimes/(.*) /$1 [R=permanent]

rewriteRule ^index\.(php|html|htm|asp) http://www.domain.com/ [R=permanent,L] 


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^Drug-Charges/(.*) /%1 [R,L]

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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You have two issues in your rule

(.*) in a RewriteCond is accessed as %1, not $1
In a .htaccess context, the leading slash is removed from the request URL path

To cut out /Drug-Charges from the request URL, you need only

RewriteRule ^Drug-Charges/(.*)$ /$1 [R,L]

Never test with 301 enabled, see this answer Tips for debugging .htaccess rewrite rules for details.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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answered Mar 18 '13 at 21:12

Olaf Dietsche

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This doesn't seem to work. It sends me to www.domain/Drug-Charges/blahblah.html – Steven Matthews Mar 19 '13 at 12:45
@AndrewAlexander It works in my test environment. Do you have other rules or conditions in your .htaccess? – Olaf Dietsche Mar 19 '13 at 12:53
So many rules, this .htaccess is a mess. I wish it were not the case. – Steven Matthews Mar 19 '13 at 12:55
Also, I need this to affect only the directory /Drug-Charges – Steven Matthews Mar 19 '13 at 12:58
@AndrewAlexander The pattern is `^Drug-Charges/`, so it affects all requests starting with `Drug-Charges`, nothing else. – Olaf Dietsche Mar 19 '13 at 13:00
Yes, but there is also a file called "Drug-Charges.html" so that could be a problem. – Steven Matthews Mar 19 '13 at 13:02
@AndrewAlexander No, `Drug-Charges.html` doesn't match, because there's no slash `/` in the request. So, no problem here. – Olaf Dietsche Mar 19 '13 at 13:04
Hrm, I am even testing it in an .htaccess tester, and it SHOULD work. – Steven Matthews Mar 19 '13 at 13:04

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 18 '13 at 21:19

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It would be better to do this kind of redirection without using the REQUEST_URI reference.

RewriteRule ^Drug-Charges/?(.*)? $1[L,NC,R=301]

This rule basically checks if the request starts with Drug-Charges, and anything optional following it, and redirects accordingly.

Note that you should remove the REQUEST_URI reference altogether.

answered Mar 18 '13 at 21:19

Mike Rockétt

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It is rewriting it as www.domain.com/.html/blahblah.html – Steven Matthews Mar 19 '13 at 12:49

.htaccess rewrite rule not working - how to fix?

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