How can I solve this .htaccess rewrite? - .htaccess

I need to make this simple rewrite, but I'm probably wrong because it doesn't work.
Original url format: http://www.mydomain.nop/folder/component/option,com_seminar/cid,134/task,3/
New url format: http://www.mydomain.nop/folder/component/eventbooking/seminar/134
The variables I need are these:
.../component/option,com_seminar/cid,num1/task,num2/
(the one after 'task,' is a variable number like the other but not necessary for the new url)
This is my code which however reports a 404 error
RewriteEngine On
...
RewriteRule ^/component/option,com_seminar/cid,([^/]*)/task,([^/]*)/$ /component/eventbooking/seminar/$1 [R=301,L]
Thanks in advance and apologize for my not perfect english
PS. I would like the code to work even without the last / of the original url

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I am upgrading my site which involves new scripts and a different URL
structure. There are currently a few thousand pages so I want to
basically move them in to a subdirectory so that they are not lost.
I am not very confident with htaccess so can someone please confirm that
the first part I have done is correct:
Old URL: http://www.example.com/article/another-dir/page-group/whatever.html
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To achieve this: http://www.example.com/archive/another-dir/page-group/whatever.html
Search engines will see the above as a permanent move and in the address bar
it will show the new url. Is this right?
The second part is on the new script - the url's could be improved but I am
unable to change all the script so thought about using htaccess again but am
not sure if it can be achieved like this.
At the moment the url looks like this:
url: http://www.example.com/category/4/categoryname
In the htaccess the current rewrite rule for this type of url looks like this:
RewriteRule ^category/(.*)/(.*)$ category.php?id=$1&slug=$2
Is it possible to change this so that in the url address bar I end up
with this:
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The second question related to passing in URI components for querystring redirect and then hiding those components in the URL I don't think would be easy, if even possible, using RewriteRules.
For the first question though. Given the sample URLs you mentioned, the RewriteRule would need to include capture and backreference if you want to preserve the full URL in the redirection. For example:
RewriteRule ^article/?(.*)$ http://www.example.com/archive/$1 [R=301,NC,L]

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I am working on url, I try htaccess, php, javascript and many other things but unable to figure it out.
My url is :
example/cheap-flight-to.php?country=lagos
and I want to change the url something like this :
example/cheap-flight-to.lagos
or
example/cheap-flight-to/lagos
please help me
The following should allow you to generate your urls in the format that you wish.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^example/cheap-flight-to/([a-zA-Z]+)$ /example/cheap-flight-to.php?country=$1 [NC,L]
What you want could be done using regular expressions in .htaccess, but it makes no sence, since it wouldn't be pointing to anything, unless you have a directory cheap-flight-to/lago in which you have an index.php that will show-up in the browser or return data. This means you have to setup a directory for each destination you want to go to. Is that really what you want? Usually it's been used the otherway around. The user (or a script for that matter) enters a url like "example/cheap-flight-to/lagos". Then through regular expressions in .htaccess you rewrite the url to "example/cheap-flight-to.php?country=lagos".
Have a look at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/misc/rewriteguide.html and
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html for more on rewriting rules in .htaccess.

301 redirect with query strings

I'm new to programming and brand new to this site (although it has helped out many times as I'm trying to learn this stuff...so THANKS for all the help so far!).
My question relates to 301 redirects. I've been searching this site as well as many other pages through google and can't seem to find a solution that works for me (I'm guessing that the solution is probably already out there since it seems like a common problem...but I haven't yet been able to find it).
So here it is:
I have a site where: http://homework-heroes.com/php/views/newAssignment.php?[then any query string] always goes to the same page.
For the sake of eliminating duplicate content as seen by google, I want these to always redirect to: http://homework-heroes.com/php/views/newAssignment.php?final
What is the htaccess code I should insert to accomplish this?
Thanks in advance!
Place the following in your /.htaccess file:
RewriteRngine On
RewriteRule %{QUERY_STRING} !^$
RewriteRule %{QUERY_STRING} !^final$
RewriteRule ^(php/views/newAssignment.php)$ /$1?final [R=302,NC,L]
The above basically says that if the query string is not blank and a request is being made to /php/views/newAssignment.php, then redirect to the same page with ?final as the new query string.
Alternatively, if you would like to remove the query string altogether, just remove final,leave the question mark in the rule, and remove the second condition.
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I have tried several examples of solutions that I have found here on StackOverflow but none of them seem to work correctly.
I have a Magento store that I need to redirect an old store code url to the new one. For example:
The old url looked like this.
www.example.com/something_en
In the above example I need to be able to modify any url that contains to the path something_en and change it to something like in the next example.
www.example.com/something
Any help is much appreciated.
Make sure this is your very first rule in main .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^something_en(/.*)?$ /something$1 [L,NC,R=301]

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http://www.example.com/fr/product-fr/review-fr/
I would like to change that to http://www.example.com/fr/product/review/ (remove -fr) but without changing the URL internally. So the user would access http://www.example.com/fr/product/review/ but the server would serve the content of http://www.example.com/fr/product-fr/review-fr/.
I want to do this to get around a URL problem with Wordpress and WPML.
Appreciate the help
Assuming the two letter lang code is always going to be constant throughout the URL:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z]{2})/product/review$ /$1/product-$1/review-$1 [L,QSA]
should work a treat :)
P.S. the regexp takes any two-letter code (upper or lower case) so will work with other langs should you require.
Have you tried mod_rewrite and Rewrite rules?
Try:
^/([a-zA-Z]{2})/([^\/]+)/([^\/]+)/$ /$1/$2-$1/$3-$1
Haven't tested this though..

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