.htaccess 301 redirect with regular expressions

Question

If I have:

redirect 301 /users/foo http://www.example.com/profiles/foo
redirect 301 /users/bar http://www.example.com/profiles/bar

Can I do something like?

redirect 301 ^\/users/(.+)$ http://www.example.com/profiles/$1

Edit

Found a solution:

RedirectMatch users/(.+) http://www.exapmles.com/profiles/$1 [R=301,L]

This actually redirects instead of rewriting.

See @Darth Android's solution with RewriteEngine which works just as well :)

Darth Android · Answer 1 · 2010-06-21 19:49:00Z

up vote 1 down vote accepted

Try using rewrite rules if you have apache:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/users/(.*)$ http://www.example.com/profiles/$1 [R=301,L]

Note that you will need ModRewrite installed and enabled in your apache config. Pulled from here if you need a method for IIS.

answered Jun 21 '10 at 19:49

	I actually wanted to redirect, not just rewrite. Appreciate the help though :) – macek Jun 21 '10 at 19:52
	@macek I haven't tested it personally, but I'm under the impression that will redirect with a 301 code. I'll play around with it a bit. The `[R=301,L]` means to stop processing rewrite rules and issue a 301 redirect. – Darth Android Jun 21 '10 at 19:54
	ah, I didn't know you could use `[R=301,L]` at then end of a `RewriteRule`. Thanks for this :) – macek Jun 21 '10 at 19:55
	@macek I didn't either until about 30 seconds ago. This is why I come to this website to be entirely honest. Thanks for increasing my knowledge! :P – Darth Android Jun 21 '10 at 19:58

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