301 Redirects problem - urls with ? and = - .htaccess

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&param=value will not be redirected because query string is group=113&param=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]

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enter code hereI have a WordPress website.
I have URLs for affiliates that look like this:
https://example.com/folder/?ref=23432
https://example.com/folder/?ref=13442
etc.
I would like to redirect any URL that ends in ?ref= to another domain.
For example, https://example.com/folder/?ref= should redirect to https://example.org/product/
How can I do this? I appreciate your time.
I tried
Redirect 301 example.com/folder/?ref https://example.org/product/
Thank you #MrWhite. I tried the following with no success.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&)ref=
RewriteRule ^example.com https://www.example.org/product/$0 [R=302,L]

RewriteRule ^example.com https://www.example.org/product/$0 [R=302,L]
The RewriteRule directive matches the URL-path only (less the slash prefix). So this should be matching against folder/ (as per your example), not the hostname.
And the $0 backreference in the substitution string is not required here. So this should simply be:
:
RewriteRule ^folder/$ https://www.example.org/product/ [R=302,L]
If you do need to check the requested hostname (ie. example.com) - if example.com and example.org point to the same server - then you need a separate condition (RewriteCond directive). For example, the complete rule would then become:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?example\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&)ref=
RewriteRule ^folder/$ https://www.example.org/product/ [R=302,L]
Note that the regex (^|&)ref= matches the ref= URL parameter anywhere in the query string, if there happened to be other URL parameters that preceded it.
Reference:
htaccess redirect URL with parameter when a special parameter exists
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriterule

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Need Guidance of 301 redirecting Url through htaccess matching specific format
Existing URL
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Proposed URL
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Here limitstart may change to 0,20,40,60 to even 1000 and thus should remain same in the new proposed url too
Can anyone advise on to redirect using htaccess of above

You need to match query string using RewriteCond using a regex to capture both parameters:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(option=com_toys)&(limitstart=\d+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?index\.php$ %{REQUEST_URI}?%1&view=list&Itemid=2&%2 [L,NC,R=301]

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Hi all I need to redirect based on query string though htaccess in Apache.
I want that all the queries that contain jjj redirect to my homepage
I used the code below but its not working could you please help me¿
Thanks in advance,
Mauri
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^jjj$
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Your rule redirects example.com/?jjj to example.com/?jjj I guess, You are getting redirect loop error as both urls are same. By default, mod-rewrite appends old query strings to the destination url. You need to use a ? at the end of the Rewrite destination url to discard query string.
Try this :
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RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^jjj$
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I've tried using each of the following
Redirect 301 /example http://website.com/new-page
RedirectMatch 301 /example(.*) /new-page/$1
RewriteRule ^example/(.*)$ http://website.com/new-page$1 [R=301,L]
In each case the final URL resolves to "website.com//new-page//?q=/example/"
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That might be due to other rules in your .htaccess. Use this rule to capture original string from THE_REQUEST variable. And add ? in the end to strip off query string.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+example(\S*)\s [NC[
RewriteRule ^ http://website.com/new-page/%1? [R=301,L,NE]

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Currently what is happening is people are accessing old URLs from google like icpaweb.com/site/pages/about-us/ and being sent to their corresponding urls on icpaweb.org : icpaweb.org/site/pages/about-us.
What I want is to send people from: icpaweb.com/site/pages/about-us to icpaweb.org/ without any of the succeeding url segments.
How do I do this?

If you have to use an .htaccess file, you can use mod_rewrite:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} icpaweb.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* http://icpaweb.org/ [R=301,L]
That will 301 redirect all requests for icpaweb.com to the index root of icpaweb.org. If you don't want 301, it can just be R.
You'll need to replace or turn off whatever mechanism is doing your redirecting now, they may not be compatible.

Use an url rewrite rule.
2 steps:
Write a RewriteCond so that the following rewrite rule only apply for url with host being icpaweb.com like RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} icpaweb.com$ [NC] The [NC] is for case insensitive match
Write a rewrite rule that convert all input to what you want like RewriteRule ^.*$ http://icpaweb.org/ [L]The [L] is to stop the rewriting to this rule if rule executed.

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