How to redirect all urls with matching keyword to one single url?

Question

I need to redirect all urls with matching keyword, regardless of position in link, to one single url on same site.

Example:

Links with word "book"

www.domain.com/booklovers.php

www.domain.com/booksforall.php

www.domain.com/bestbooksonamazon.php

www.domain.com/somethingaboutbooks.php

to be redirected to one single url on same domain,

www.domain.com/books.php

For now, I am focusing on

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^.*book.*$ /books.php [L,QSA]

but it is not working. I tested same expression

^.*book.*$

in tester on http://tools.netshiftmedia.com/regexlibrary/ and it works, but in .htaccess it does not work. I am reading various answers here and learned a lot on other examples, but I can not find nothing for my case.

Answer 1

Try something like this after making sure AllowOverride is set to All in your virtualhost config and that mod_rewrite is enabled:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule book books.php [L,QSA]