redirect url and banning

[Miguel González]

On 02/16/18 10:21 PM, Miguel González wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   I have changed an URL from:
> 
>   https://www.mysite.com/word1-word2/
> 
>   https://www.mysite.com/word3-word2/
> 
>   and changed my .htaccess accordingly.
> 
>   I have successfully banned www.mysite.com/word1-word2 without the
> ending / but not with / ending using:
> 
>   ban req.http.host ~ www.mysite.com/word1-word2
> 
>   and
> 
>   ban req.http.host ~ www.mysite.com/word1-word2/
> 
>   So option without ending /, 301 redirect works but with / doesn´t.
> 
>   I have googled around but I haven´t found any solution.
> 
>   Regards,
> 
>   Miguel
> 


The issue was on the .htaccess redirect, I had to use:

RewriteRule ^word1\-word2/?$ "https\:\/\/www\.mysite\.com\/word3\-word2
[R=301,L]

instead of:

RewriteRule ^word1\-word2$ "https\:\/\/www\.mysite\.com\/word3\-word2
[R=301,L]


Sorry!

Miguel



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