Regular expression for htaccess URL redirect

[innovator48]

Hi All,

I am trying to redirect all files in a particular directory in my web server.

I am trying regular expressions such as
RedirectMatch /data/january\/([a-zA-Z0-9]*).pdf

http://www.mysite.com/sample

The expression /([a-zA-Z0-9]*) is trying to find expressions such as "dat35262.pdf".

But its not working. Can you help me out?

Thanks in advance

Ashish

 

[feherke]

Hi

But its not working.

It works for me :
[ul]
[li]put your code in the .htaccess file[/li]
[li]made a request for [ignore]

http://master/data/january/dat35262.pdf

[/ignore][/li]
[li]get redirected to [ignore]

http://www.mysite.com/sample

[/ignore][/li]
[/ul]

[blue]master #[/blue] wget -S --spider [URL unfurl="true"]http://master/data/january/dat35262.pdf[/URL]
Spider mode enabled. Check if remote file exists.
--2011-04-21 11:39:10--  [URL unfurl="true"]http://master/data/january/dat35262.pdf[/URL]
Resolving master (master)... 127.0.0.1
Connecting to master (master)|127.0.0.1|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 
  HTTP/1.1 302 Found
  Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:39:10 GMT
  Server: Apache
  [highlight]Location: [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.mysite.com/sample[/URL][/highlight]
  Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
  Connection: Keep-Alive
  Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Location: [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.mysite.com/sample[/URL] [following]
Spider mode enabled. Check if remote file exists.
--2011-04-21 11:39:10--  [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.mysite.com/sample[/URL]
Resolving [URL unfurl="true"]www.mysite.com[/URL] ([URL unfurl="true"]www.mysite.com)...[/URL] 64.136.20.37
Connecting to [URL unfurl="true"]www.mysite.com[/URL] ([URL unfurl="true"]www.mysite.com)|64.136.20.37|:80...[/URL] connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 
  HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
  Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:39:10 GMT
  Server: .V08 Apache
  Keep-Alive: timeout=999999, max=999999
  Connection: Keep-Alive
  Content-Type: text/html
Remote file does not exist -- broken link!!!

Is there anything relevant for such request in your access log and error log file ?


Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[innovator48]

Hi Feherke, thanks. As you said in your earlier reply at

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1645859&page=1,

I replaced the Redirect with RedirectMatch. But I was not placing the "\" before "/([a-zA-Z0-9]*).pdf" in the .htaccess file.

After placing it, the code is working for me as well.

Thanks a lot!!!