Redirect rule for multiple conditions

[sdbhabal]

Hello Experts,

I need conditional redirection rule like below:

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RewriteRule l/?([-a-zA-Z0-9_+]+)$ short/new1_rdr.php?d=$1 [L]
RewriteRule s/?([-a-zA-Z0-9_+]+)$ short/new2_rdr.php?d=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^/?([-a-zA-Z0-9_+]+)$ short/new.php?d=$1 [L]

In above rules, what I wanted to achieve is:
1. whenever http://abc.com/l/gdff gets request it should get redirected to short/new1_rdr.php file.
2. whenever http://abc.com/s/hdvb gets request it should get redirected to short/new2_rdr.php file.
3. And if anything other than 'l or s' in the request like http://abc.com/k/hdvb, it should get redirect to short/new.php file.

Above redirection rules are not working as expected.
Please help me to solve this.

[Nobbie]

I cannot see anything wrong with rule 1 and 2, only the third is incorrect:

RewriteRule ^/?([-a-zA-Z0-9_+]+)$ short/new.php?d=$1 [L]

Instead:

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RewriteRule [^ls]/?([-a-zA-Z0-9_+]+)$ short/new.php?d=$1 [L]

P.S.: Actually, i dont think that "/?" is correct, simply without "?":

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RewriteRule l/([-a-zA-Z0-9_+]+)$ short/new1_rdr.php?d=$1 [L]
RewriteRule s/([-a-zA-Z0-9_+]+)$ short/new2_rdr.php?d=$1 [L]
RewriteRule [^ls]/([-a-zA-Z0-9_+]+)$ short/new.php?d=$1 [L]

Last not least, why so complicated pattern for the part behind the slash, why not simply ".*"?

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RewriteRule l/(.*)$ short/new1_rdr.php?d=$1 [L]
RewriteRule s/(.*)$ short/new2_rdr.php?d=$1 [L]
RewriteRule [^ls]/(.*)$ short/new.php?d=$1 [L]

[sdbhabal]

Thank you Nobbie for your quick response, detailed explanation & valuable suggestion.
I have done the required changes as per your suggestion.
But I don't know why, now everything is getting redirect to short/new.php?d=$1 (to the third rule).
Even 'l' & 's' also, getting redirect to short/new.php?d=$1.
If i remove third rule, then first & second is working fine.
Please help.

[Nobbie]

You have to add "^" in the beginning of the pattern (= first character). This .htaccess works for me:

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^l/(.*)$ short/new1_rdr.php?d=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^s/(.*)$ short/new2_rdr.php?d=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^[^ls]/(.*)$ short/new.php?d=$1 [L]


[sdbhabal]

It worked for me too.
Thank you so much again.