How to redirect all that URLs that ends with “-2” to the same link without “-2”?

Question

I have an comparison website based on woocommerce and I have the following problem.

I have 1 product from 2 vendors:

Vendor 1: https://example.com/lista/ceas-accurist-signature-7220-classic/

Vendor 2: https://example.com/lista/ceas-accurist-signature-7220-classic-2/

Through .htaccess I want to 301 redirect all the links that finish in -2/ to the original one, without -2/.

Any idea how I can build the .htaccess rule based on that suffix -2/?

Answer 1

Try the following at the top of your .htaccess file:

RewriteRule (.*)-2/$ /$1/ [R=301,L]

Any URL that ends in -2/ is redirected to the same URL without -2.

The $1 (in the substitution string) is a backreference to the captured group (the part before the -2/) in the RewriteRule pattern.