On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 5:29 PM Dave Wreski
<dwre...@guardiandigital.com.invalid> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In my ongoing effort to reduce the number of redirects for
> linuxsecurity.com, I could use a bit more help. Currently we have one
> redirect to strip off any potential trailing slash as well as another that
> strips out any preceding 'www'.
>
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1/$1 [R=301,L]
>
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
> RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1 [R=301,L]
>
> The rest of our redirects are of the form:
>
> RewriteRule ^/about/us /about [L,R=301]
>
> Should I be combining each of these to also do the above with something
> like:
>
> RewriteRule ^/about/us/? https://linuxsecurity.com/about [L,R=301]
>
> It seems like that would reduce the number of redirects by two, but I'm
> unsure of what implications that would otherwise have. Maybe if I instead
> performed the RewriteConds without R=301 and just rewrote the URL itself?
> I'm not sure how that works.
>
> Any ideas greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
>
>
Perhaps you can, but be careful about not creating loops, especially if
using .htaccess files.
Also, is there a specific reason why you're not using Redirect with
mod_alias instead?
