I believe there should be a simpler method to rewriting URLs than I currently have and wonder if anyone can help.

The site I am working on has multiple brands for example:

https://example.com/anything/brand/nike/something
https://example.com/anything/brand/puma/something

My current redirect would be

RedirectMatch 301 "(.*)/brand/nike(.*)$" "$1/manufacturer--nike" 

To get me the following output, removing /brand/ and replacing nike with manufacturer--nike and finally removing anything that follows i.e. /something.

https://example.com/anything/manufacturer--nike

Now I could add a second rule for Puma and each of the other brands, but I imagine there is a way to match against a list of brands and use one rule but my Google skills have failed me in finding a solution.

Is there a way?

CodePudding user response：

If the number of brands are limited then you could use alternation (eg. nike|puma|brand etc.) in the regex, to match nike or puma or brand.

Aside: To match nike/<something>, you should at least check for that slash, otherwise it's going to match nikeeeee and nikey etc. (Although not necessarily an issue.)

For example:

RedirectMatch 301 "(.*)/brand/(nike|puma|brand)/" "$1/manufacturer--$2" 

The (.*)$ at the end of the regex - to simply remove the trailing part of the URL-path - is not required.

The $2 backreference contains the "brand-name" matched by the second capturing (alternation) subpattern.

method to rewriting URLs

Just to clarify, this is an external redirect, it's not "rewriting URLs".