Regex in Rack-Rewrite redirecting more than it should

Question

I have a redirect setup like so:

r302 %r{(/example/.*)}i, 'http://new-domain.com/$1'

For this URL http://example.com/example it works great redirecting to http://new-domain.com/example

I would like to adapt this regex (or expression) to not redirect if the URL has more than one level of directory, such as http://example.com/admin/example

If `http://example.com/example` Then redirect to => `http://new-domain.com/example`? And if `http://example.com/admin/example` Don't redirect. Is it? — Caio Oliveira, May 23 '14 at 15:49

Mike H-R · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-24T12:41:01.540

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Basically we simply anchor the start of the string with ^. which matches at the start of a string and is zero-width:

r302 %r{^(/example/.*)}i, 'http://new-domain.com/$1'

edited May 24 '14 at 12:41

answered May 23 '14 at 16:05

Mike H-R

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@Neil, which was it, the first or the second? I'll edit my answer to only display the correct one for future peoples. – Mike H-R May 23 '14 at 16:18
The first option...Thanks!! – Neil Hoff May 23 '14 at 18:01

Regex in Rack-Rewrite redirecting more than it should

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