Remove all character before category_name

But when I’m in category_name, if I put some characters before category_name:

Do you mean if you use something like:
/%category%/%postname%/

I use this.

This url is ok: site . com / mycat

and I see list posts in category page

I would know why url work however (watching list post in catagory page) if I call wrong url like this:

site . com / blabla / mycat

I don’t get you. Link to a page and explain what you don’t have and what you would like to have.

I would not like to have.

I seen in several wp blog this joke.

If you go in a wordpress blog, you could see:

site . com / category_1

and you see the list of posts in category_1 and is ok.

If you write in the url something before category_1

site . com / something / category_1

the page work well with wrong url (site . com / something / category_1 isn’t exist), it should return 404 at least, if you have not a way to do redirect 301.

Ops !!! When I wrote

I would not like to have

I wrote joking, I mean: I would like to have something less in the url for the reasons up !!!

Thanks however.

I’m searching to understand this wp’s aspect.

I tried to add in .htaccess:

Redirect 301 /(.*)/directory http : // www . example . com / dir

but doesn’t wotk.

Could you please stop with the spaces in the examples? It makes it harder to read. ??

That’s a mod_alias example, try using this (untested) mod_rewrite instead.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*)/directory https://www.example.com/dir [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

Sorry, doesn’t work, with slash / as first character and without..
Thanks for the answer.

Sorry,
I I changed the status resolved on topic because I can’t to work out this problem for me senseless.
I don’t understand because when I put in category url whatever string before the category name, the result is not 404 (because the url does not exist).

Where could be the problem ?

In another my WordPress website this mistake does not happen.

I’m going crazy…

I tried again after lot of time.
This Instruction works well.
I put before the wp code in htaccess.

Thanks.