regex - Redirect 301 of old urls to wordpress urls

I am migrating a website from vivvo cms to wordpress. Vivvo is using category pages like index.numberofthepage.html

I want to redirect urls like using regex:

.200.html

to

/

mycats could be more than one category ex cat1/cat2... and the 200 could be any number. I used :

^/index.(.*?)\.html to ^/page/$1/

But not redirecting. Thanks

I am migrating a website from vivvo cms to wordpress. Vivvo is using category pages like index.numberofthepage.html

I want to redirect urls like using regex:

https://www.example/mycats/index.200.html

to

https://www.example/mycats/page/200/

mycats could be more than one category ex cat1/cat2... and the 200 could be any number. I used :

^/index.(.*?)\.html to ^/page/$1/

But not redirecting. Thanks

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Share Improve this question edited Jan 6, 2019 at 18:54 yazuk asked Jan 6, 2019 at 14:58 yazukyazuk 8511 silver badge55 bronze badges 4

• Please add the context in which you are using the redirect rule. – fuxia ♦ Commented Jan 6, 2019 at 18:41
• I migrated a website from vivvo cms to wordpress. Iwould like to avoid 404 errors. Vivvo is using category pages like index.**numberpage**.html – yazuk Commented Jan 6, 2019 at 18:51
• I mean: are you using the regex in a PHP file, in an nginx config or in a .htaccess? Right now it's impossible even to guess what is wrong. – fuxia ♦ Commented Jan 6, 2019 at 19:18
• using the regex in the plugin "Redirection" link – yazuk Commented Jan 6, 2019 at 22:53

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Since category and page number is dynamic, you can use htaccess and use this sample rewrite rule below:

RewriteRule (.*?)/index.(.*?)\.html $1/page/$2/

You can test the regex here - https://htaccess.madewithlove.be/ and I can see that it is working as far as I have tested it.

PS: URL Redirections are cached aggresively, you need to clear you browser cache completely to make sure that you are testing it properly.

Hope this helps!