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Looking to redirect all URLs which look similar to this: 

https://www.example.com/discussion/topix/random-page-title.133760/posts/1255466/rate?rating=13&_Token=78139%2C1464617730%2Ca42dfb1db7e54b51db1879075650aaf4a3c3323a

to 

https://www.example.com/discussion/topix/random-page-title.133760/

Basically removing the following from the URL:

posts/1255466/rate?rating=13&_Token=78139%2C1464617730%2Ca42dfb1db7e54b51db1879075650aaf4a3c3323a

They are parts of an old system.

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RedirectMatch 301 ^/discussion/topix/(.*)/posts/.*$ /discussion/topix/$1/

(.*) is a capturing group which matches anything preceding ‘posts’.
$1 outputs the capturing group as the destination for the redirect.

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  • Thats perfect thank you, although it leaves the part of the URL starting /rate? Is there anyway of stripping that last part of the URL too ?
    – Randomer11
    Oct 11, 2017 at 8:35
  • Actually, Unfortunately that conflicts with another part of the site which has a URL such as example.com/discussion/posts/1059959 which acts differently. Is there a way of narrowing it down so it only checks for /posts/ after the /topix/ directory
    – Randomer11
    Oct 11, 2017 at 8:41
  • @Randomer See edit, it now only matches if the path starts with /discussion/topix/
    – grg
    Oct 11, 2017 at 8:45
  • Perfect thank you very much Grgarside I have marked the answer as correct :)
    – Randomer11
    Oct 11, 2017 at 8:49
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    There's no need to escape the slashes in the source URL regex. However, this won't remove the query string on the original request (you'll be left with ?rating=13..... appended to the end of the target URL). To remove the query string "cleanly" you'd need to use a mod_rewrite RewriteRule directive.
    – MrWhite
    Oct 11, 2017 at 17:24

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