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    • AlanMosley
      AlanMosley @sesertin last edited by

      Did you try it, it works for me.

      Just try simply thisword

      it should match aaaathiswordaaaaa

      this will work,

      [a-z]thisword [a-z]

      but so will

      thisword

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      • sesertin
        sesertin @sesertin last edited by

        still not working for me.

        The exact url is domain.com/?score=4&rew=25   (there are some more versions of course with different counters)

        I want to redirect all urls like this to domain.com

        tried:

        RedirectMatch 301 /[a-z]score[a-z] http://domain.com
        RedirectMatch 301 /.score. http://domain.com
        RedirectMatch 301 /^score$.* http://domain.com
        RedirectMatch 301 /.^score$.* http://domain.com

        none of them woks

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        • AlanMosley
          AlanMosley @sesertin last edited by

          i work on microsoft servers, so i am not sure about the sytax of htaccess.

          but the regex is the same.

          please try these.

          RedirectMatch 301 [a-z]score[a-z] http://domain.com
          RedirectMatch 301 score http://domain.com

          you missed the *

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          • sesertin
            sesertin @sesertin last edited by

            Still not working for me. I tried further with:

            RedirectMatch 301 [.]score[.] http://domain.com  (I thought a-z stands just for letter and urls contain number and marks)
            RedirectMatch 301 [.]score[.] http://domain.com

            neither works

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            • AlanMosley
              AlanMosley @sesertin last edited by

              You are correct, give me a munite and ill get back to you

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              • AlanMosley
                AlanMosley @sesertin last edited by

                try [a-z,0-9]score[a-z,0-9]

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                • AlanMosley
                  AlanMosley @sesertin last edited by

                  [a-z,0-9,=,&]alan[a-z,0-9,=,&]

                  get the idea

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                  • AlanMosley
                    AlanMosley @sesertin last edited by

                    Here this will select your whole url

                    [a-z,0-9,=&?/.]score[a-z,0-9,=&]

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                    • sesertin
                      sesertin @sesertin last edited by

                      nothing works. maybe I'll try posting another thread.

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                      • AlanMosley
                        AlanMosley @sesertin last edited by

                        Well that will select your url, but what are you trying to do with it.

                        i have it working on IIS server using that regex, but i cant tell you how to use it in htaccess, as i dont use it

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                        • sesertin
                          sesertin @sesertin last edited by

                          Thanks for the help. Regretfully this is my very first time writing htaccess so lot of faults can occur. I posted another thread maybe someone knows better than I do. Thank you very much for your time.

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                          • ShaMenz
                            ShaMenz @sesertin last edited by

                            Hi Zsolt,

                            Did you actually look at the link I gave you with the code that you needed?.

                            The answer is to stop trying to use Redirectmatch and use the code I gave you in that example:

                            RewriteEngine on
                            
                            RewriteBase /score
                            
                            RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} score=
                            RewriteRule ^/*$ newlocation.html? [R=301,L]
                            

                            This is the simplest, cleanest, and most reliable solution to your problem.

                            Sha

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                            • sesertin
                              sesertin @sesertin last edited by

                              Yes, Sha looked at it and got a bit lost at once. I am totally new to server side codes and it needed a little modification but i got it working in the end. Thanks a lot.

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                              • ShaMenz
                                ShaMenz @sesertin last edited by

                                Glad you got it worked out 🙂

                                Don't forget if you need extra help on something you can always use the Private Message system in your profile to contact people direct.

                                Have a great weekend,

                                Sha

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                                • AlanMosley
                                  AlanMosley @sesertin last edited by

                                  well done sha, i am afraid i got the wrong end of the stick, i thought he wanted to SELECT the url, not simply detect it.

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