Joomla K2 articles redirect

Question

I have a lot of URLs like this: www.mywebsite.com/blog/item/1021-le-foreste.html that becomes, after SEF changes, like this: www.mywebsite.com/blog/le-foreste.html How can I write an .htaccess rule that say something like: where you find an URL with "item" word and ID number redirect to the same URL without "item" word and ID number, please? Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

Add this line to the very beginning of your .htaccess file:

RedirectMatch 301 /blog/item/(\d+)-(.*) /blog/$2

Explanation:

• This part (\d+) matches any number immediately after /blog/item/
• This part (.*) matches anything after the first dash.
• $2 represents what (.*) matches, which is anything after the number and the hyphen (note that $1 will be the number, which is 1021 in the case of your example above)