javascript how to switch pathname of window.location property and redirect

javascript regex window.location
Hcabnettek picture Hcabnettek · Oct 13, 2011 · Viewed 20.2k times · Source

I want to redirect a user from varying urls to a specific one. I've tried various flavors of replacing and I cant seem to get the behavior I want. This code works except I'm providing the hostname. I want to use the existing hostname from windows.location.hostname and just provide a new pathname. Sometimes the urls vary in size and slashes ('/').

window.location = 'http://localhost:36065/NewPath';

How would I change these urls? 

http://somesite.com/xxx/yyy/zzz to http://somesite.com/NewPath
http://somesite.com/xxx/yyy to http://somesite.com/NewPath
http://somesite.com/xxx to http://somesite.com/NewPath

I think you get the point. The path can vary in paths, I want to replace everything after .com basically with 'NewPath'

I'd like a clean regex solution if possible but I am quite the rookie in that dept. Thanks for any tips or tricks.

Answer

Jason Harwig picture Jason Harwig · Oct 13, 2011 
location.pathname = '/newpath.html'

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