正则表达式在RedirectMatch中不起作用

Question

I want to match a particular regex and want to redirect it to main page. The condition is if the word 'item' is preceded by main domain then it should redirect. eg

www.summitaviation.in/item/foobar.html -> www.summitaviation.in

while

www.summitaviation.in/foo/item/bar.html -> should not redirect.

I'm using

RedirectMatch .*summitaviation\.in.item.*  http://www.summitaviation.in

but it's not working!! Please help.

Answer 1

The hostname isn't part of the match, you need to start with /item :

RedirectMatch ^/item/ http://www.summitaviation.in

If you've got multiple hosts pointing to the same document root, then you need to use mod_rewrite:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?summitaviation\.in$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^item/ http://www.summitaviation.in [L,R]