Redirect, but preserve part of URL

Question

its possible create a redirect, replace only part in the URL? another part preserve...

in this case ONLY listing to business

EXAMPLE:

www.example.com/listing/new-york
www.example.com/listing/boston
www.example.com/listing/etc...

to

www.example.com/business/new-york
www.example.com/business/boston
www.example.com/business/etc...

thank you for tips :)

Answer 1

This is fairly easy to do with mod_rewrite. See this question if you need help enabling that.

Then add the following to your .htaccess

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^listing/(.*)$ business/$1 [R,L]

Change the [R] flag to [R=301] after testing the redirect works as expected to turn the redirect into a permanent redirect.