Have been struggling with a 301 redirect issue and cannot see the wood for the trees. Really hope someone can assist.
I have over 400 old urls that we need to redirect to a new urls. I have however modified the htaccess to create a clean url on the new site and am not sure if this is causing an issue or if I am doing something else wrong.
To clean urls in the new site I have added the following to the htaccess fle:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+) category?cat=$1 [NC,L,QSA]
This is so that instead of www.mysite/category?cat=1 I can have www.mysite/1 and-add-other-information
I am now trying to do the redirects for the 400 urls such as:
RewriteRule ^category?cat=1 1/and-add-other-information [R=301,NC,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^category?cat=2 1/and-different-information [R=301,NC,L,QSA].
I know the L flag makes a difference and have tried this with and without.
I hope this makes sense.
QueryString isn't part of match in pattern of a RewriteRule.
You need to use RewriteCond directive and match against %{QUERY_STRING} variable like the following :
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^cat=1$
RewriteRule ^category$ /and-add-other-information? [R=301,NC,L,QSA]
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I'm new to htaccess so please bear with me..
I'm trying to redirect traffic to URLs with query string to the root of my site as these URLs are no longer used.
Here is an example:
I would like traffic to this URL
https://www.DomainName.com/subdir1/subdir2/cond_e.asp?obark=110246
to go to http://www.DomainName.com
I do not need to keep the URL or anything just redirect to my homepage.
I need to do this for query string value from obark=110246 all the way up to obark=120000.
I've basically played around with the below to get at least one URL to redirect properly but never could get it to work at all.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^oPark=110246$
RewriteRule ^subdir1/subdir2/cond_e(.*) ^$? [NE, R=301, L]
What am I doing wrong? please help!
Try with below rule in subdir2,
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/cond_e.asp
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^obark=[1]{1}[1-2]{1}[0]{1}[02-9]{1}[094-5]{1}[06-9]{1}
RewriteRule ^ http://www.DomainName.com? [R=301,L]
I want to make a existing site seo friendly URLs. I have almost there and rewrite all links. But when it comes to 301 redirect old URL's to new ones, where I got stuck. Here below how I have done it.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^video_gallery video_gallery.php
Redirect /video_gallery.php http://site.com/video_gallery
So as illustrated above I have rewritten the video_gallary.php to video_gallary and now I want to redirect all requests with http://site.com/video_gallery.php to http://site.com/video_gallery
But its now working properly as above. A lil help here please.
Thank you
This will cause a redirect loop. You need to match against the %{THE_REQUEST} variable which is the actual request, not the URI (which gets changed through the course of processing). So using your example:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^video_gallery video_gallery.php
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /video_gallery\.php
RewriteRule ^ /video_gallery [L,R=301]
I would like to redirect old joomla 1.5 RSS Feeds to new ones via htaccess. For example I have an old URL: http://www.mydomain.tld/en/categories/debian.feed?type=atom
and wish to redirect it to: http://www.mydomain.tld/en/?format=feed&type=rss
I tried it with the following htaccess rule, but it didn´t work:
RewriteRule ^de/categories/([a-z]+)\.feed?type=atom$ http://www.mydomain.tld/en/?format=feed&type=rss [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^en/categories/([a-z]+)\.feed?type=atom$ http://www.mydomain.tld/en/?format=feed&type=rss [R=301,L]
did anybody know whats wrong with my rule, or did have a working one for me?
I think the query string is your problem - you can't match on that with a rewrite rule. Try something like:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^type=atom$
RewriteRule ^de/categories/([a-z]+)\.feed$ http://www.mydomain.tld/en/?format=feed&type=rss [R=301,L]
There is plenty of information out there but nothing I've read on the interwebz has given me an answer as to why my htaccess is not working.
I cannot determine why my rule isn't rewriting the URL as I thought it would. I have the following url:
domain.com/Book/bookpage/index.php?bookID=123&bookName=foo_bar
I would like to change it so that when someone hits that URL, it shows like:
domain.com/Book/123/foo_bar
I started off trying to get it to work using just the Book ID and haven't even gotten that to work.
This is what I have thus far:
RewriteRule ^Book/([0-9]+)$ /Book/bookpage/index.php?bookID=$2
However, after placing that htaccess in the root of the site and going to the URL:
domain.com/Book/bookpage/index.php?bookID=123
The URL in the address bar remains the same.
try this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# this rewrite domain.com/Book/123 or domain.com/Book/123/
RewriteRule ^Book/([0-9]+)/?$ /Book/bookpage/index.php?bookID=$2 [L,NC,QSA]
# this rewrite domain.com/Book/123/title or domain.com/Book/123/title/
RewriteRule ^Book/([0-9]+)/([a-z0-9\-_]+)/?$ /Book/bookpage/index.php?bookID=$1&bookName=$2 [L,NC,QSA]
Try adding [L,R=301] at the end of the line:
RewriteRule ^Book/([0-9]+)$ /Book/bookpage/index.php?bookID=$2 [L,R=301]
I have this url
http://www.mmametals.com.php5-20.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/?page_id=61
and i want to redirect to the root like this
http://www.mmametals.com.php5-20.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com
here is my htaccess
RewriteEngine on
redirect 301 /?page_id=61/ http://www.mmametals.com.php5-20.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com
but nothing is happening...any ideas
Also I was wondering if there is a way also in .htaccess to delete a duplicate /about ...so for example if the url is
http://somesite.com/about/about
it will rewrite the rule to always be
http://somesite.com/about
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page_id=61$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mmametals.com.php5-20.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %(REQUEST_URI) ^/about/about[/]?
RewriteRule (.*) http://somesite.com/about? [R=301,L]
should do it.
I don't know the exact answer off the top of my head as I don't work directly with apache that much any longer, but I think you need to look into apache's mod_rewrite module. Try taking a look at:
Apache's mod_rewrite documentation
This post about blocking certain URLS