htaccess: Rewrite if url is www.domain.com/some-string/xxx but not www.domain.com/some-string-is-here

Question

My htaccess looks like the following:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^some-string/$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^some-string(.*)$ http://www.domain.com$1 [R=301,L]

So all requests from www.domain.com/some-string/xxx should be redirected to www.domain.com/xxx (from subfolder to main domain). Now I had the problem that an article contained exactly the some-string part in his name eg www.domain.com/some-string-is-here. The result is that the article is not found.

How do I have to adapt the redirect?

Answer 1

Making the RewriteRule a bit more specific should help; in that case the RewriteCond is not necessary. As only requests starting with some-string/ (including the / ) should be rewritten, appending that / to the rule does the trick for me:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^some-string/(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

If you also want to rewrite www.domain.com/some-string (and only this and not www.domain.com/some-string-more ), you can try instead:

RewriteRule ^some-string(/.*)?$ http://www.domain.com$1 [R=301,L]