My htaccess redirects with regex aren't working

Question

I have the following redirect in my htaccess:

Redirect 301 "^/city/(.*)-north-carolina$" "https://example.com/US/NC/$1-north-carolina-hotels.php"

When I enter example.com/city/asheville-north-carolina I don't get the redirect like I should. Something wrong with my syntax or does something need to happen with RewriteCond?

I've tried various version of the syntax, nothing

Answer 1

The Redirect directive only takes a static URL as input.

To solve it, either :

• Replace Redirect by RedirectMatch :

  RedirectMatch 301 ^/city/(.*)-north-carolina$ https://example.com/US/NC/$1-north-carolina-hotels.php
  

  Here, RedirectMatch will receive the leading slash of the URL.

Or

• Use a RewriteRule :

  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /
  
  RewriteRule ^city/(.*)-north-carolina$ https://example.com/US/NC/$1-north-carolina-hotels.php [R=301,L]
  

  In this case, RewriteRule receives the path without the leading slash.