Need Help Creating Rewrite Rule

Question

Thank you for taking the time to read my question!

I currently have a large ecommerce store with over 4000+ URLs. We are in the process of finishing up the development on the brand new, re-platformed version of the website, and unfortunately that has led to a change in the URL format for all of our products.

I am not very familiar with the syntax to use to create the RewriteRule to handle the scenario below. If you can help me out it would be greatly appreciated!

Scenerio:

Original URL: http://www.example.com/p-22-some-product-seo-name.aspx

This URL needs to be converted to...

New URL: http://www.example.com/some-product-seo-name

Notice, that the first part of the original URL the ( p-xx- ) needs to be removed. Where xx is the product id that was used in the old URL. That ID is not always 2 digits and can be 1-8 digits in length depending on the product.

Also, the .aspx needs to be removed from the end of the url, leaving just the hyphenated SEO name.

I have tried the following (and many variations of it) but to no avail!

RewriteRule ^p-([^-]*)-([^-]*)\.aspx$ /$2 [R=301, NC]

Answer 1

Your expression should be changed to the following:

^p-([\d]{1,8})-([\w-]+)\.aspx$

Where the first capture allows for between one and eight digits, and the second capture allows for alpha-numeric characters, underscores, and hyphens.