Hey Aldo,

To account for the trailing slash, we can do something like this:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/author/aldolat/(.*)/?$ http://www.aldolat.it/author/aldo/$1

Should do it, let me know if otherwise.

Thanks, Jeff, for your help!

It doesn’t work, and I do not understand the reason. :(

Your modification is clear, but why doesn’t work?

I don’t know, there are many factors involved with HTTP requests, redirects, WordPress, plugins, and so forth. Have you tried using mod_rewrite, something like:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/author/aldolat/(.*)/?$ [NC]
	RewriteRule .* http://www.aldolat.it/author/aldo/%1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

Maybe give that a try and fine-tune if necessary?

Just tried that code, but unsuccessfully.

Jeff, may I ask you to remove the 6 links in my first post and put those 6 lines into code tag?

Sorry to bump in, learning here as well, and just got curious, just as a test, since the (.*) is a wildcard isnt that enough (without extra question marks or slashes) for the statement?

Something like this:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/author/aldolat/(.*)$ http://www.aldolat.it/author/aldo/$1

@Aldo: all taken care of :)

@Leon: that may do the job, and you can omit the $:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/author/aldolat/(.*) http://www.aldolat.it/author/aldo/$1

Essentially the same thing, FWIW.

@Leon @Jeff
We got it!

*All* the suggested directives works well, either mod_alias or mod_rewrite. The problem was me, i.e. I was trying only the URL with page 17 and never other pages (2, 5, 12, 21, and so on). In other words, all directives work well in every page, but not on page 17!! eheheh :D Very strange.

The mystery of Computer Science! :D

Awesome Aldo, glad you got it sorted! :)

Thank you all! ;)