Hello, I have recently changed the URL structure of my website and now I am getting lots of 404 errors.

The previous form of the URL was like this:

lovecooking.gr/συνταγές/μαγειρική/1381-Mοσχαρίσιο-φιλέτο-ψητό
or
lovecooking.gr/συνταγές/μαγειρική/item/1381-Mοσχαρίσιο-φιλέτο-ψητό
or
lovecooking.gr/συνταγές/μαγειρική/μοσχάρι/1381-Mοσχαρίσιο-φιλέτο-ψητό

which contained greek characters and made the URL really long and unfriendly when used in posting to Facebook or other.

The new form of URL is:
www.lovecooking.gr/syntages/mageiriki/1381-mosxarisio-fileto-pshto

But even that would also suffice:
www.lovecooking.gr/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&layout=item&id=1381

Could you pls assist me with creating a dynamic redirect that applies to all URLs of that form?

Kind regards,
Manos K

Hello Luigi and thanks for the reply!

I am sorry but I don't understand exactly what you mean. But I will show you the tree structure and you might understand how it goes:

Syntages (parent category, means 'recipes' in greek)
- mageiriki (child category, means 'cooking')
- zaxaroplastiki (child catefory, means 'pastry' or 'confisserie')
- pota (child category, means 'drinks')

so the destination includes 'syntages' (almost 95% of the times) and then one of the three children categories.

Then follows the item id (ie, 1381) and then the item alias (mosxarisio-fileto-pshto) separated by a dash (-)

Is that sufficient information?

Kind regards,
Manos K

Also this form should be added to the list of "From URL" (yet another subcategory followed by '/item')

lovecooking.gr/συνταγές/μαγειρική/μοσχάρι/item/1381-Mοσχαρίσιο-φιλέτο-ψητό

('μοσχάρι' stands for 'veal')

Hello Luigi, come stai?

I have tried what you suggested but the returning URL produces a 404 error because it isn't decoding the preg expression or something:

The resulting link

Actually, I can't paste the URL here without it being translated but you see what I mean.

Kind regards,
Manos K