Can someone help me with RegEx?

[cyberlicious]

Hey!

I am having a tough time figuring this out, and I have already signed up for my RegEx course.  So in the mean time, could you please help me?

I have two old URLs:

/faq

/faq.php

The new one is /faqs

How can I write a 301 redirect to include faq & faq.php in the same line?  I basically want to capture /faq and anything beyond the q including the .php.

I thought this would work:

Redirect 301 /faq. http://www.blah.com/faqs

Using the period to catch everything after the q and redirect it to the /faqs page.

Extra credit: And why Redirect 301 vs. RedirectMatch 301?  It is an Apache server and mod_ rewrite is on.

Thanks in advance!

[cyberlicious]

I'm going to have to do a rule, aren't I?  Basically to include (faq|faq.php) or something like that, huh?  So a RewriteRule is going to have to be used instead of Redirect or RedirectMatch.

Please help!

[OlegKorneitchouk]

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^faq(.*) /faqs [L,R=301]

That should do the trick

[cyberlicious]

Thanks Oleg!!!

-f is for file and -d is for directory, correct?

I found a 5 hour course on Lynda.com on RegEx so I'll be doing that this evening.

Thanks again for your quick response.  Much appreciated!!!

[OlegKorneitchouk]

-f is for file and -d is for directory, correct?

Correct.

And your very welcome

A course should help you understand RegEx a lot more but I still find myself looking up specific situations online.

[cyberlicious]

Yes, I bet.  I just want to be able to know what I'm asking.  lol

Thanks again for your help!