How to do a 301 redirect for url's with this structure?

[mr_w]

In an effort to clean up my url's I'm trying to shorten them by using a 301 redirect in my .htaccess file. How would I set up a rule to grab all urls with a specific structure to a new shorter url examples:

http://www.yakangler.com/articles/reviews/other-reviews/item/article-title

http://www.yakangler.com/reviews/article-title

So in the example above dynamically redirect all url's with /articles/reviews/other-reviews/item/ in it to /reviews/ so

http://www.yakangler.com/articles/reviews/boat-reviews/item/1550-review-nucanoe-frontier

http://www.yakangler.com/articles/reviews/other-reviews/item/1551-review-spyderco-salt

http://www.yakangler.com/articles/reviews/fishing-gear-reviews/item/1524-slayer-inc-sinister-swim-tail

would be...

http://www.yakangler.com/reviews/1550-review-nucanoe-frontier

http://www.yakangler.com/reviews/1551-review-spyderco-salt

http://www.yakangler.com/reviews/1524-slayer-inc-sinister-swim-tail

with one 301 redirect rule in my .htaccess file.

[Matthew_Edgar]

You can do this via RedirectMatch statements. There is an example of different match types you could use here. Basically, you create a pattern and then the code is smart enough to redirect based on that pattern.

http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/301-redirect-with-mod_rewrite-or-redirectmatch.html#301_Redirects_RedirectMatch

Your redirect might look something like this though you might want to adjust the pattern match the directory in between /reviews/ and /item/. Mine is just a basic alphanumeric catch all.

RedirectMatch 301 ^/articles/reviews/([-A-z0-9]+)/item/(.*)$ http://clients.qwconsulting.com/reviews/$1

I hope that helps.