apache rewrite using a wildcard in the middle

Question

I need to write a rewrite that will repoint: www.example.com/thing1/thing2/thing3/thing4/product-name

to www.example.com/product-name.html

I tried: RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^thing1/thing2/thing3/thing4/(.*)$ /$1 [R=302,L]

but I got a 404. All help welcome.

Answer 1

If these in all try

RewriteRule ^thing1/thing2/thing3/thing4/(.*)$ /$1.html [R=302,L]

instead of

RewriteRule ^thing1/thing2/thing3/thing4/(.*)$ /$1 [R=302,L]