Issue with redirect looping

[nickCR]

The following rewrite is resulting in an infinite loop.

Basically I want anything that goes to blog which contains letters or - for 2 directories after blog to redirect to tags using the $1.

I thought the following would work but it's not doing a good job as it results in the rewrite to be like this:

http://www.example.com/blog/tags/tags/index.html

This is not the desired effect but I assume it's doing that because it's redirecting again after the initial redirect. I tried to resolve that by checking request uri for the word tags. But that didn't resolve the problem :(

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/tags/
RewriteRule ^/blog/([A-z\-]*)/([A-z\-]*)/index.html$ http://www.example.com/blog/tags/$1/index.html [R=301,L]

[lucy24]

So you want the rule to work for

www.example.com/blog///indexzhtml

but only if the request wasn't for

www.example.com/tags/more-stuff-here

?

Look at that for a moment and you can start sorting out the problems.

[nickCR]

I do see the problem, it's reading itself.

But how do I go about telling it that it must have tags and more stuff here?

[nickCR]

OMG! I'm a putz. I figured it out thanks!

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/blog/tags/
RewriteRule ^blog/([A-z\-]*)/([A-z\-]*)/index.html$ http://www.example.com/blog/tags/$1/index.html [R=301,L]

[g1smd]

You MUST list the redirecting rule before the rule that rewrites.

It's a good idea to have a non-www/www canonicalisation rule after all other redirects and before the rewrite(s).

Make sure all your rules use RewriteRule syntax and NOT Redirect or RedirectMatch.

Do not redirect to a named index page. The correct URL ends with a trailing slash.