Redirect remove itself from httacces file

  • A year ago I have changed permalinks on my site and place this redirect into htacces file like this:

    RedirectMatch 301 ^/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})/(.*)$ https://mysite.com/$4

    It was always working, but now, for some reason the file is always being removed on its own.

    This is my htaccess file and place where I usually had it:

    ## EXPIRES CACHING ##
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 week"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 week"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 week"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 week"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 week"
ExpiresByType application/pdf "access plus 1 week"
ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access plus 1 week"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 week"
ExpiresDefault "access plus 2 days"
</IfModule>
## EXPIRES CACHING ##

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RedirectMatch 301 ^/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})/(.*)$ https://mysite.com/$4
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress
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  • WordPress controls all lines between the # BEGIN WordPress and # END WordPress lines. WP will reset these lines any time the permalinks are changed or saved. Create your own section and your changes should not be replaced.

    Thread Starter jronder

    (@villas-diani)

    Thank you so much vtxyzzy,what do you mean Create your own section? How:-( where should I put that redirect. I am also not sure if it should be there still:-( I am sorry if my questions are stupid, but I am very new to this.

    Thank you very much,

    All the best
    July

    I am not an htaccess expert, but I think you can add these lines to .htaccess BEFORE # BEGIN WordPress:

    # BEGIN Custom
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RedirectMatch 301 ^/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})/(.*)$ https://mysite.com/$4
</IfModule>
# END Custom
    Thread Starter jronder

    (@villas-diani)

    Thank you so much! I am going to try, hopefully this time it will stay there.
    Thank you so much and good day,

    all, the best
    July

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