regex redirect to other domain fails

Resolved robert7k
(@robert7k)

4 years, 1 month ago

i want to redirect all of the urls that contain a specific word to another domain.

http://www.mysite.com/online-tickets
http://www.mysite.com/tickets/buy
http://www.mysite.com/expensive-tickets-sale
etc…
should redirect to http://tickets.example.com

so it should be easy…
so i create a redirect from “tickets” (with regex enabled) to http://tickets.example.com
unfortunately this fails – from
http://www.mysite.com/tickets/buy
i get redirected to http://www.mysite.com/http://tickets.example.com/buy
and then a redirect loop with repeating replacing “tickets” inside the url…
Is this a bug? (looks like a bug)…
If i disable regex http://www.mysite.com/tickets does properly redirect to http://tickets.example.com
I’m using wordpress redirection (my server doesn’t support anything else)

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Plugin Author John Godley
(@johnny5)

4 years, 1 month ago

What is your regular expression? What is your target?

I think it is more likely an incorrect expression than a bug.
Thread Starter robert7k
(@robert7k)

4 years, 1 month ago
again… my regex expression is tickets
(i enable regex just to enable substring match)
my target is http://tickets.example.com

and the log:
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Plugin Author John Godley
(@johnny5)

4 years, 1 month ago

Ok, tickets is not a regular expression, and can’t be used in that way as a substring match.

As per the guide, your expression should match the whole URL.

https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/
Thread Starter robert7k
(@robert7k)

4 years, 1 month ago
ok… sorry. i get it.
Thanks!
tickets IS a valid regex match, i’ve expected it to just to redirect to target url, not to do regex replacement.
anyways, i’ve fixed my problem using .*tickets.*
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