Redirect groups of pages

[dckantor]

I have inherited a website which was redesigned a year ago. The site is in 3 languages. It used to have 3 separate html pages for each content page (e.g. index.en.html, index.es.html, index.zh.html). The site was rebuilt using lasso (not my choice) so now there is one page (index.lasso) which contains the 3 language content sections and depending upon what language the viewer is in only that part of the content is displayed.

 

My Problem: I have thousands of hits on the pages that don't exist anymore (becuase people bookmarked them) and no efficient way to redirect them.

 

My Question: Is there a way to create a bit of code that would for example:

 

take any of three forms of the url ..../index.**.html

and replace it with the url ..../index.lasso

 

I would need to do it may times for many pages so even better would be code to redirect

 

www.mysite.com/pagename.**.html

www.mysite.com/pagename.lasso

 

Thanks very much for any ideas.

 

dckantor

[DarkWater]

Why is this in the OOP board?  Anyway, this is just mod_rewrite.

 

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ([a-zA-Z0-9\-_]+).([a-zA-Z]{2}).html $1.lasso

[dckantor]

Thanks - that's just what I need. Unfortunately being a lasso newbie I don't know where that code is supposed to go. Do I put it in my default.lasso page (this is currently the page that shows on error)?

 

Thanks

[Daniel0]

In httpd.conf or .htaccess

[dckantor]

Thanks - if I can't find either of these files should I create a .htaccess file in the root dir of the site.

This is a site running on a Mac Desktop machine and the dirs don't contain a .htaccess or a config file that I can find.

 

Thanks for the help

[Daniel0]

You'll have to create the .htaccess in the directory you want things to apply in.

[dckantor]

I have created the .htaccess file, placed it in the appropriate dir and confirmed that there are no .htaccess or config files that override it.

 

But my pages are not being redirected. Any other thoughts?

THanks