Wildcard javascript url redirect

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Can't use htaccess, so have to rely on javascript.

Say the url is example.com/page1/page2/page3/ and I want to redirect this to example.com/page4/page3/ how would I do this? (and have this work for anything that has anything as page3 and has any subfolders after that as well). And also that page3 can be anything, so a wildcard would have to be in place for this..

Plus: Say the url is example.com/page1/page2/page3/page5/183/ and I want to redirect this to example.com/page4/page3/ how would I do this? (cutting off page5 plus anything on the url after that).

rely on javascript If you mean javascript running in a browser you would need to make the urls valid before using them. If you mean javascript running on the server it should be pretty easy. Please clarify. — James
– James, Commented Jan 30 at 17:59

esqew · Accepted Answer · 2025-01-30 17:58:12Z

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Test the contents of the current URL's pathname; if it startsWith("/page1/page2/page3") then do the redirect:

const currentPath = new URL(window.location.href).pathname;
if (currentPath.startsWith("/page1/page2/page3"))
     window.location.replace("/page4/page3");

answered Jan 30 at 17:58

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Malachi Jan 30 at 19:07

Would it be possible to read out those tags (page1, page2, etc.)? And then if page1=something1 && page2=something2 then do the window.location.replace, else if page1=something1 && page2=something3 then window.location.replace, etc? So that whatever page3 is (wildcard?) that can always be dynamic?

Erty Seidohl Jan 30 at 19:10

You could split the pathname on "/" and process it however you want from there. currentPath.split("/")

Malachi · Accepted Answer · 2025-01-30 20:48:33Z

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var pathArray = window.location.pathname.split('/');
var LvlLoc1 = pathArray[1];
var LvlLoc2 = pathArray[2];
var LvlLoc3 = pathArray[3];
var LvlLoc4 = pathArray[4];

then do if statements to verify if LvlLoc1-4 are anything and then do a location.href="https://example.com/" + whatever you want it to be. As in my example the url is example.com/page1/page2/page3/ and I want to redirect this to example.com/page4/page3/:

location.href = "https://example.com/" + LvlLoc4 + "/" + LvlLoc3 + "/"

I hope that helps anyone out.

answered Jan 30 at 20:48

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