Redirect url from Joomla articles to K2 articles using htaccess

Question

I've imported my articles from Joomla! to K2 keeping the ids the same. Now I'd like to rewrite the Joomla! urls to point to the K2 items. I'm using Joomla 2.5.9 with SEF and modrewrite enable. Also, I've never worked with modrewrite rules I think it's the best option as I've thousands and thousands or articles. The url I want to change is as: `http://www.mysite.com/news/component/content/article/9-society/19771-the-alias-of-the-article` And the url generated by the same K2 item is `http://www.mysite.com/news/society/19771-the-alias-of-the-article` I created the menu item `society` in order to get this url. So, i edited the .htaccess to create a rule as follow ``` RewriteRule ^news/component/content/article/9-(.*)$ /news/$1 [R=301,L] ``` But i get a 404 error page. Note that this example is a try to understand if the modrewrite is working. I've not taken into acount the id category (9 in this example). The question is: What did I miss with the rewrite rule? In addition, I've tried othe…

Accepted Answer

You may try this in one .htaccess file in root directory:

Updated for .htaccess file in folder `/news`:

```
Options +FollowSymlinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /news
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^component/content/article/9-([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?  $1/$2 [R=301,L]
```

Redirects

`http://www.mysite.com/news/component/content/article/9-society/19771-the-alias-of-the-article` with or without trailing slash

To

`http://www.mysite.com/news/society/19771-the-alias-of-the-article`

All strings are assumed to be fixed, except `society` and `19771-the-alias-of-the-article`.

For silent mapping, remove `R=301` from `[R=301,L]`

NOTE: Both `RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}...` are there to prevent loops. They check if the file or the directory exists, to skip the rule in case they do.

Redirect url from Joomla articles to K2 articles using htaccess

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