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I am using Drupal 7. Many of my url paths (up to 6,000) have moved to new url paths with no 301 redirect so they are returning lots of 404s on google. i have paths like /articles/bla/bla-bla/12345 which moved to /articles/bla-new/something/12345

Since the old path which now returns a 404 has the node id in the url at the end, i want to redirect a path like this "/articles/bla/bla-bla/12345" to node/12345 once the system detects a 404

Any suggestions for using .htaccess redirect rules or other module to achieve this?

I've tried this: RewriteRule ^articles/*/+ node/+ [R=301,L] but it doesnt look right.

I need some help. thank you in anticipation

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Try 

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^articles/.*/.*/(.*)$ /node/$1 [R=301,L]

of not worked use your absolute URL

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^articles/.*/.*/(.*)$ http://www.yourdomin.com/node/$1 [R=301,L]
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  • Does the code above have a rule to detect if the url returned a 404? Thank you
    – Smart Systems
    Mar 30, 2017 at 21:39
  • @ITProManager No, I don't write rule, do you want I add it or you can ? I just redirect what you need.
    – Yuseferi
    Mar 30, 2017 at 21:40
  • yes i would like the rewrite only when the page returns a 404, not for every url, can you include some code or expression for that? thank you
    – Smart Systems
    Mar 30, 2017 at 23:54
  • @ITProManager I update the answer ,try that.
    – Yuseferi
    Mar 31, 2017 at 6:29
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    @ITProManager the first rule needs to have a slash in front of node/$1 like /node/$1 otherwise it will expand it to the file system as oppose to web path. Secondly, I don't think you can detect a 404 at .htaccess level, since this all happens before the application receives your request and sends a 404 response. The only option sounds like for you to write a hook_init and detect if there's going to be a 404 response, parse the URL and do a redirect yourself. See this answer for the basics
    – Beebee
    Mar 31, 2017 at 15:37

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