# Rewrite external URLs

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/rewrite-external-urls/277855>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [September 5, 2023, 12:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rewrite-external-urls/277855 "2023-09-05T12:41:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![kam44](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47c2d/32.png) [@kam44](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kam44)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2023, 2:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rewrite-external-urls/277855/6 "2023-09-05T14:36:47Z")

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> [@pfaffman](#):
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> Regexes are hard

💯 😅

What I tried with the Google url example :

`/(https?:\/\/)?(www\.)?google\.com/`  
`/(https:\/\/)?(www\.)?((google)?\.com)/`

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