Help with couple of mod_redirect rules

[Jaffery]

Originally Posted by kh99

Maybe you want [^.], like

RewriteRule /tags/([^.]+)\.html /tags.php?tag=$1 [L,R=301]

ETA: Hmm...or in case tags can show up elsewhere in the path, maybe both . and /, like

RewriteRule /tags/([^./]+)\.html /tags.php?tag=$1 [L,R=301]

Thanks guys, it worked with following: (and yes there were some conflicting rules from default vb)

RewriteRule tags/([^.]+)\.html /talk/tags.php?tag=$1 [L,R=301]

Now I need to handle attachment urls :

Its like :

http://domain.com/members/username/albums/my-updates/2451-user-privacy-security.jpg

Here 2451 is image ID:

I did this :

RewriteRule members.+/([\d]+)-.+\.jpg http://domain.com/talk/attachment.php?attachmentid=$1 [L,R=301]

Again not working..

No matter how much I read about regex, its always confusing for me, can you guys confirm if I read it correct :

[^/] mean any character except /
so,
[^./] means any character exept . and /

am I reading it right ?

--------------- Added [DATE]1443051370[/DATE] at [TIME]1443051370[/TIME] ---------------

Well.. I donno but now its working .. for precaution I have added condition for attachment url redirect:

#image attachment
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /albums/ [NC]
RewriteRule members.+/([\d]+)-.+\.jpg http://domain.com/talk/attachment.php?attachmentid=$1 [L,R=301]

Is it as I think, ie. first checking condition if URI contains /albums/ word and then only proceed for further match and redirect ?