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RewriteRule with dash or hyphen – SEO

In accordance with the SEO guidelines I am changing pages url from

website.com/color_red/ (underscore) to

website.com/color-red/ (dash / hyphen)

/color-red/ must simply produce ?c=red

In .htaccess this works perfectly with underscore:

RewriteRule ^color_([^/.]+)/?$ ?c=$1 [L]

not with dash:

RewriteRule ^color-([^/.]+)/?$ ?c=$1 [L]

I think dash char must be escaped but I don’t know how.

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  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER
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    A simple solution is to escape the hypen/dash char - with square brackets [-] :

    RewriteRule ^color[-]([^/.]+)/?$ ?c=$1 [L]

  2. 0

    Could you please try following. Please make sure to clear your browser cache before testing your URLs.

    1st solution: To handle both _ OR - in your URLs then try following.

    RewriteEngine ON
RewriteRule ^color[_-]([^/]*)/?$ ?c=$1 [L]

    2nd solution: In case you only want to handle - in your URLs then try following.

    RewriteEngine ON
RewriteRule ^color-([^/]*)/?$ ?c=$1 [L]
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