In this tutorial, I’m going to share how to redirect URL using .htaccess if it contains specific word. Let’s think our blog URLs contain .html end of the URL. We’re going to redirect the .html URLs to without .html.

The Solution

We can do this using .htaccess rewrite rule. Open .htaccess file and write the rule like this:

RewriteEngine On

# check if url contains .html and then redirect to without .html link
RewriteRule (.*).html$ /$1 [R=301,L]

Let’s see another example. If URL contains foobar we’ll redirect the URL to index.php. Here’s the rule:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} foobar
RewriteRule ^ /index.php [L,R]

We also can write the rule like this:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^(.*)foobar(.*)$ http://www.example.com/index.php [L,R=301]

I hope this article will help you.