[tclug-list] Need help with mod_rewrite on Apache 2.2.2

[Mike Miller]

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Michael Glaser wrote:

> Armed with my very limited knowledge of regular expressions and 
> mod_rewrite, I tried the following two configurations (one at a time) 
> and neither worked:
>
>  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}   ^/[xX][yY]/(.*) [NC]
>  RewriteRule ^/[xX][yY]/(.*)  http://xy.other.domain.net/$1 [R=301,L]
>
>  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}   ^/[xy|XY|Xy|xY]/(.*) [NC]
>  RewriteRule ^/[xy|XY|Xy|xY]/(.*)  http://xy.other.domain.net/$1 [R=301,L]
>
> Any suggestions on how I can solve this problem?


You're sure that first one didn't work?

Your first one is a proper regexp.  The second one is not a proper regexp 
-- it should probably be (xy|XY|Xy|xY) instead of [xy|XY|Xy|xY], but you 
then need to use $2.

If all else fails, you should be able to enumerate all possibilities:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}   ^/xy/(.*) [NC]
RewriteRule ^/xy/(.*)  http://xy.other.domain.net/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}   ^/XY/(.*) [NC]
RewriteRule ^/XY/(.*)  http://xy.other.domain.net/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}   ^/xY/(.*) [NC]
RewriteRule ^/xY/(.*)  http://xy.other.domain.net/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}   ^/Xy/(.*) [NC]
RewriteRule ^/Xy/(.*)  http://xy.other.domain.net/$1 [R=301,L]

Mike