Htaccess - get last word of url

Question

I want to implement a .htaccess redirect based on the following pattern:

www.site.com/ugly-depreciated-values-name

to

www.site.com/location/name

• The value after the final hyphen will always be used as the new url.
• There is not a constant number of hyphens in the old urls.

Answer 1

     import re
     x="www.site.com/ugly-depreciated-values-name"
     print re.sub(r"(.*?/).*?-(\w+)$",r"\1location/\2",x)

Output:www.site.com/location/name

This is in Python.

Answer 2

You can use this rule in your root .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^.+?-([^/-]+)/?$ /$1 [L,R=302]

Answer 3

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^[A-Z0-9a-z\-]+-(.*)$ http://www.example.com/location/$1 [R=301,L]