Redirect 301 & Wild Cards

[scottiedog]

Afternoon All!

Question, I am having trouble getting my head around redirects and I am wondering if someone could help me on this....

We recently changed our website and although were using the same database, were using a different URL structure.  So for example...

Old URL siteurl.com/products/product/moredetails/merlin.id1553.html
New URL siteurl.com//vertigo/dl/product.php?p=1553

As you can see the product has the same ID number, just in a different directory.  What I'd like to happen is....

If you go too siteurl.com////.idXXXX.html then you are 301'd too siteurl.com//vertigo/do/product.php?p=XXXX

Obviously XXXX is the ID number of the product in our database.

Any thoughts?  I need help!

Thanks in advance.

[RyanPurkey]

Hi Richard. This is a fairly complicated redirection scheme you hope to achieve. I'd hire out for a someone skilled in Regex to pull it off smoothly.

[scottiedog]

Ryan,

You were spot on, hired a chap to do just that.  If anyone in the future is interested in the solution it was just this...

RedirectMatch 301 ^(.)/(.)/(.)/(.).id([\d]+).html$ myurl.com/vertigo/dl/product.php?p=$5

[RyanPurkey]

Excellent! It matches up nicely with the example you provided, and always good to have someone on hand to make sure everything works as intended. Glad you found a good one.