URL redirect with htaccess Topic is solved

[stevent]

I've migrated my site van Joomla to Joomla 4. I've also moved to articles from K2 to Joomla articles. Over the ast few years there where thousands of articles written, so the redirects component isn't a simple solution for redirecting the old K2 url's to the new url's. I want to fix this with a line of code in htaccess, but my regular expressions skill are apparently not sufficient to get it right.

The old ur's are

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https://mysite.com/menuname/submenuname/item/12345-item-alias

The new url's don't have the /item and I removed the item-id (which differs since the migration) including the trailing dash. The new urls are thus:

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https://mysite.com/menuname/submenuname/item-alias

I thought this line of code would do:

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RewriteRule ^/item/([0-9]+)-(.*)?  $1 [R=301,L]

But the result is that the id is still there and that the /menuname/submenuname is also removed:

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https://mysite.com/12345-item-alias

[gws]

An interesting approach to url rediects from Pe7er. viewtopic.php?f=808&t=994669
Just noticed you and Pe7er are townies.

[stevent]

Yes I know Peter personally. ;-)

His solution is to mass import old and new urls Ito the redirect system. That is some effort. (I have 4000+ articles) It should be really easy, in my case, to do this in htaccess, since the structure of all the urls are identical.

[stevent]

I've figured it out. (It took me some time, since it seems the browser was changing old redirects.)

The code should be:

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RedirectMatch 301 ^(.*)/item/([0-9]+)[-](.*)$ $1/$3

To explain it for anyone who finds this post in de future:

$1 is for the path (menuname/submenuname) which is matched by the first (.*) and $3 is the alias which is matched by the second (.*).
Where did $2 go? That's the part with the numbers you leave out: ([0-9]+)
And the hyphen is filtered out with [-]