Using Apache mod_rewrite to remove sub-directories from URL

I'm managing an instance of Wordpress where the URLs are in the following format:

/example-category/blog-post-permalink/

The blog author did an inconsistent job of adding categories to posts, so while some of them had legitimate categories in their URLS, at least half are "uncategorised".

I can easily change Wordpress to render the URL without the category name (e.g., /blog-post-permalink/), but I'd like to create a mod_rewrite rule to automatically redirect any requests for the previous format to the new, cleaner one.

How can I use a mod_rewrite recipe to handle this, taking into account that I want to honor requests for the real WordPress directories that are in my webroot?

1 Answer

Something as simple as:

RewriteRule ^/[^/]+/([^/]+)/?$ /$2 [R]

Perhaps would do it? That simple redirects /foo/bar/ to /bar

That seems to work great with my testing so far. Thanks for the help!

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