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I'm in the process of migrating a website from an old CMS to Wordpress. The way that some of the old URLs were:
http://www.example.com/tags/tagged/tag/tag+name
For Wordpress, I need it to be the following URL:
http://www.example.com/tag/tag-name
So I need to remove the /tags/tagged sub-directories and also change the + signs to - signs. Is there any way to do this with .htaccess?
You should be able to use something similar to the answer to mod_rewrite: replace underscores with dashes on StackOverflow:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(/?tags/tagged/tag/[^/]*)\+([^/]*)$ $1-$2 [N]
RewriteRule ^/?tags/tagged(/tag/[^/\+]*)$ $1 [R=301,L]
The first rule should loop multiple times because it uses the N or "next" flag. It should change one plus to a a dash each time.
Once there are no pluses left, the second rule should trigger. It will remove the extra directories because the first parenthesis only includes the tag directory. Then it will issue the redirect.
\+ from the last rule? That should issue the redirect without fixing the plusses. If that doesn't work, I think you don't have the code in the correct file or something.
Jul 9, 2018 at 20:14
/tags/taggedany two subdirectories? Or some specific subdirectories or a singular specific URL-path? In the/tag/tag-namepart, it looks like the preceding subdirectory matches the first part of the final path segment - is that significant? "change the + signs to - signs" - could there be more than one+sign? Or is it literally justfirst+second? Or even hardcodedtag+name??tagis literal andtag-nameis a URL slug. I'm taking it astags/tagged/tagis literal andtag+nameis a URL slug with possibly multiple plusses.