I have a few url that have appeared in google search console with "?" and under scores "_"in the URL. I have tried many ways to redirect them but i have failed. I believe it has some thing to do with using the %{QUERY_STRING}
this is the URL that i need redirecting from
repairs-blog?journal_blog_tag=iPhone
to
blog?journal_blog_tag=iPhone
Maybe someone could write the solution?
When a query string is involved, you use RewriteCond with %{QUERY_STRING}, e.g.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} journal_blog_tag=
and then rewrite with RewriteRule
RewriteRule ^repairs-blog$ /blog [L]
Because you don't change the query string, there's nothing more to do.
When you want to rewrite this URL, no matter what query string is given, you can also omit the RewriteCond and just use the RewriteRule.
If you want to redirect instead of rewrite, e.g. change the URL in the client, you add the R flag
RewriteRule ^repairs-blog$ /blog [R,L]
Related
This is so elementary that you have to ask why it is so complex to implement.
Simply need to redirect one url to another on the same domain, the url contains query string aparams though:
I tried:
RewriteRule ^article.php?section=exclusive&id=543 articles/view/4639 [R=301,L]
I get page cannot be found - the redirect is not happening. I have other re-directs in the same htaccess which work. The query string params are causing problems, and escaping them also does not help.
Note the id's of the two urls are not the same and therefore I don't want a clever re-write rule which converts from one url to another with the query strings mapped to new params. I just want a fast and dirty mapping from A to B.
UPDATE
I tried this it redirects but it is adding my old query string to the end of the new url. How can I prevent that?
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/article\.php$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^section=exclusive
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.onlinegooner.com/articles/view/3000 [R=301,L]
Input url is: mydomain.com/article.php?section=exclusive
You may use this rule:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^section=exclusive [NC]
RewriteRule ^article\.php$ /articles/view/3000? [R=301,L,NC]
? in the target will strip off previous query string.
I have searched but cannot find a specific answer for this exact redirect style...
I have this structure of URL with this specific parameter:
https://websitename.com/directory/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=cart
I want it redirected to:
https://websitename.com/shopping-cart/
Note that the above mentioned "directory" changes, but the index.php with the parameters stay the same. No matter what the directory is, I always want it to go to the same exact redirect.
I cannot seem to get the right redirect working in htaccess. Can anyone help?
You can use this redirect rule as your first rule in site root .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /(?:index\.php)?\?option=com_virtuemart&view=cart [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /shopping-cart/? [L,R=308]
# remaining rules go below this
You can use a set like this. It takes care on the param view=cart
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&)view=cart
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /shopping-cart/? [L,NC,R=301]
If you want to keep the querystring params, then change
/shopping-cart/?
to
/shopping-cart/
without questionmark
example:
https://www.mydomain.de/myproduct/?___store=french&___from_store=german
to
https://www.mydomain.de/myproduct/
I have a store and want to dynamically permanent rewrite storeviews of hundrets of urls to one part of the same url.
And this for many URLs at ones redirecting via 301 to the product part
Can you help me?
You can use this rule to strip off the query string:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ___store=
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ___from_store=
RewriteRule (.*) $1? [R=301,QSD,L]
It checks if the query string containing ___store= and ___from_store=, then redirect to the same URL permanently without the query string.
I'm new with 301 redirects through .htacces.
I can get simple redirects as
redirect 301 /test.html http://www.domain.com/test2.html
to work but I have some urls like this
redirect 301 /test.asp?Group=100 http://www.domain.com/test3.html
and for some reason these don't work.
Thanks.
Here is set of rules for URLs you have provided:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} =group=113 [NC]
RewriteRule ^group\.asp$ http://domain.dk/til-born.htm? [NC,R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} =product=1136 [NC]
RewriteRule ^product\.asp$ http://www.domain.dk/til-born/bukser.html? [NC,R=301,L]
As you can see query string is matched separately to the page name. So .. for each of such redirects you need 2 lines: RewriteCond & RewriteRule.
The rule above will do EXACT match, which means /group.asp?group=113¶m=value will not be redirected because query string is group=113¶m=value which is more than just group=113.
To have such redirect working (when there are some optional parameters in query string) you have to modify it: RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&)group=113(&|$) [NC] -- this will match group=133 anywhere in query string (group=113 and group=11366 are still different, so no problems here).
This needs to be placed in .htaccess in website root folder. If placed elsewhere some tweaking may be required.
The Redirect directive (as far as I know) matches only on the path, not querystring. Instead, use RewriteRule. The QSA instructs the rewrite engine to append the querystring onto the new redirected URL.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^test\.asp http://www.domain.com/test3.html [L,R=301,QSA]
I have a few messy old URLs like...
http://www.example.com/bunch.of/unneeded/crap?opendocument&part=1
http://www.example.com/bunch.of/unneeded/crap?opendocument&part=2
...that I want to redirect to the newer, cleaner form...
http://www.example.com/page.php/welcome
http://www.example.com/page.php/prices
I understand I can redirect one page to another with a simple redirect i.e.
Redirect 301 /bunch.of/unneeded/crap http://www.example.com/page.php
But the source page doesn't change, only it's GET vars. I can't figure out how to base the redirect on the value of these GET variables. Can anybody help pls!? I'm fairly handy with the old regexes so I can have a pop at using mod-rewrite if I have to but I'm not clear on the syntax for rewriting GET vars and I'd prefer to avoid the performance hit and use the cleaner Redirect directive. Is there a way? and if not can anyone clue me in as to the right mod-rewrite syntax pls?
Cheers,
Roger.
As the parameters in the URL query may have an arbitrary order, you need to use a either one RewriteCond directive for every parameter to check or for every possible permutiation.
Here’s an example with a RewriteCond directive for each parameter:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^([^&]&)*opendocument(&|$)
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^([^&]&)*part=1(&|$)
RewriteRule ^bunch\.of/unneeded/crap$ /page.php/welcome? [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^([^&]&)*opendocument(&|$)
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^([^&]&)*part=2(&|$)
RewriteRule ^bunch\.of/unneeded/crap$ /page.php/prices? [L,R=301]
But as you can see, this may get a mess.
So a better approach might be to use a RewriteMap. The easiest would be a plain text file with key and value pairs:
1 welcome
2 prices
To define your map, write the following directive in your server or virual host configuration (this directive is not allowed in per-directory context):
RewriteMap examplemap txt:/path/to/file/map.txt
Then you would just need one rule:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^([^&]&)*opendocument(&|$)
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^([^&]&)*part=([0-9]+)(&|$)
RewriteRule ^bunch\.of/unneeded/crap$ /page.php/%{examplemap:%2}? [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} option=com_content&task=view&id=70&Itemid=82
RewriteRule ^index.php http://www.example.com/business/banks/? [R=301,L]
The ? will prevent the url the user is sent to from having the same query string as the origin page.
In summary, you could use RedirectMatch with a regex that will match the full URL, including query string. That will let you rearrange parts of the URL, but if you have to do conversions like "opendocument&part=1" to "welcome" (where the new URL is completely different from the original one), you might need a RewriteMap - or perhaps better, just send all URLs to page.php and parse the query string in PHP.
EDIT: If it's just a few URLs you want to redirect, you could probably write out individual rules like
RedirectPermanent http://www.example.com/bunch.of/unneeded/crap?opendocument&part=1 http://www.example.com/page.php/welcome
RedirectPermanent http://www.example.com/bunch.of/unneeded/crap?opendocument&part=2 http://www.example.com/page.php/prices