Redirecting WordPress’ date-based permalinks via Apache.

Snippet for redirecting from date-based permalinks to date-less permalinks on WordPress using Apache.

Follow up to a similar post on Caddy. I am now, instead of self-hosting, using Cloudways — courtesy of a friend (hi!).

This meant moving all my redirects and rewrites from Caddy’s Caddyfile to Apache’s .htaccess.

My host is using Apache 2.4 and let’s assume I do not have access to the VirtualHost configuration. I’ll use the RedirectMatch directive here as it super similar to Redirect except for allowing RegEx.

RedirectMatch 301 ^/[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}/(.*)/$ /$1/

RewriteRule, for whatever reason, does not seem to work on my host even when it should. I posted about this on SmallCamp, but to me, it looks like it might be different ways of doing the exact same thing. So I’ll settle with RedirectMatch for now.

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