How to prefix every blog slug with "new-" using htaccess-CodePudding

I want to add "new" to every blog URL slug.

For example, if someone visits https://www.example.com/blog/post-one it will redirect to https://www.example.com/blog/new-post-one.

CodePudding user response：

At the top of the root .htaccess file try the following using mod_rewrite:

RewriteEngine On

# Redirect "/blog/<post-title>" to "/blog/new-<post-title>"
RewriteRule ^(blog)/(?!new-)([\w-] )$ /$1/new-$2 [R=302,L]

This assumes <post-title> consists of only the characters a-z, A-Z, 0-9, _ (underscore) and - (hyphen)

(?!new-) - this is a negative lookahead that asserts that the <post-title> does not already start with new-. Otherwise we would get an endless redirect loop.

You do not need to repeat the RewriteEngine directive if it already occurs (later) in the file.