Stripping Redirect

[webcitz]

Hello,

I have thousands of URLs that all have a similar feature that I would like to utilize as a stripping type of regular expression, if possible. Here is an example of one of the bad URLs:

Bad URL Example: http://www.example.com/folder1/folder2/folder3/url-name.html?var1=A&var2=B

What I would like to do is setup a single redirect that would simply take the person from that bad URL straight to the following:


Desired Result: http://www.example.com/folder1/folder2.html

In my real-life situation, folder2 isn't really a folder but a category name for products. Additionally, folder3 isn't really a folder either, but instead a line of text that says "shopby" which breaks out filterable attributes both in redirects and url parameters thereafter.

[g1smd]

It's a couple of lines of code utilising a RewriteCond and a RewriteRule.

Lucy posts a boilerplate explaining how query string processing works, at least several times each week.

Check that out and post your best shot at the necessary code as per the forum charter.

[lucy24]

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