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htaccess Expertise please?

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  • 10-11-2017 12:36pm
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    devildriver
    Registered Users Posts: 874 ✭✭✭


    I'm trying to deal with a whole heap of old incoming links on a site I've rebuilt. All of the legacy urls use underscores and the new site uses hyphens. So a htaccess rule to redirect seemed like a good option.

    Problem is it's mucking up some legacy images with underscores in the file names. How do I exclude certain directories from the rewrite?

    Currently using the rule like this:

    #1 Redirect rule to convert _ to -
    RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+(.*?)_+[_-]*(.+?)\sHTTP [NC]
    RewriteRule ^ /%1-%2 [L,NE,R=302]

    Thanks.


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    #2
    daymobrew
    Registered Users Posts: 6,494 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    I don't know the answer but maybe a check whether the file exists might help.

    In the WordPress default .htaccess code it has: 
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    I believe that these check whether the request is for an existing file or directory.
    Maybe put these before your lines and see what happens.


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