Remove parts of URL and redirect to specific page of site

Question

I have a game site which recently migrated to wordpress, now I want to redirect the old URL to new one. Here's the example:

Old URL - https://www.website.com/fighting/stick-fighter.html New URL - https://www.website.com/stick-fighter/

I fixed this by creating this in htaccess:

Redirect 301 /fighting/stick-fighter.html /stick-fighter/

But my games are 500+ with different category so I don't want to encode each every game in htaccess. Is there a way to remove the category in URL which is "fighting" and remove the ".html" extension?

Answer 1

^(?<base>https?://www.website.com/)(?<catgory>fighting/)(?<page>.+?)(?<extension>\.html)$

Then combine "base" and "page" group

I am using C# like this:

string s1 = Regex.Replace(oldUrl, @"^(?<base>https?://www.website.com/)(?<catgory>fighting/)(?<page>.+?)(?<extension>\.html)$", @"$1$3/");

For the URL redirection, you should enable apache redirection by enabling "AllowOverride" in httpd.conf:

• Change AllowOverride from None to all

   Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All 

• Load redirect module

   LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so 

• Change/Add rewrite rule

   <VirtualHost *:80> RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^(?<base>https?://www.website.com/)(?<catgory>fighting/)(?<page>.+?)(?<extension>\\.html)$ $1$3/ [L] </VirtualHost>