.htaccess redirect rule to remove specific part from url

Question

I have to do 301 redirection for all my url's something from

http://www.example.com.au/website-blog/item/121-itemName

to

http://www.example.com.au/website-blog/itemName

Need to remove part item/(itemId)- from all urls.

I have tried

RewriteRule ^item/[\d]+-(.*)$ /$1 [L,R=301,QSA].

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Capture the item name using (.+) and substitute accordingly. Place the following rule in /.htaccess :

RewriteRule ^website-blog/item/\d+-(.+) /website-blog/$1 [R,L]

Note:

• Change R to R=301 after testing
• The QSA flag is not required in this case