I'm trying to deprecate the use of .html suffixes for my urls. I'm trying to redirect old urls like this:
Code:
https://www.example.com/subdir/some-item-title/page-specifier-15-1132.00.html
to the new identical URL but minus the
.html at the end:
Code:
https://www.example.com/subdir/some-item-title/page-specifier-15-1132.00
the
some-item-title and
page-specifier change and can be almost anything depending on the item. I added this addRedirect line to my Config/Routes.php file:
PHP Code:
$routes->addRedirect('subdir/([a-z\-]+)/([a-z\-]+)-(\d{2}-\d{4}\.\d{2})\.html', 'subdir/$1/$2-$3');
However, the addRedirect function apparently doesn't work with the backreferences. I do get a redirect but, rather than containing the patterns matched in the original url, the new url just has literally $1, $2, and $3:
Code:
https://www.example.com/subdir/$1/$2-$3
Does addRedirect not support backreferences? If so, it might be helpful to clarify this in the documentation. How should I go about solving this problem? NOTE: I do *not* want to redirect all urls ending in .html.
