How to redirect URLs based on query string? - apache

Question

I successfully mass migrated a Wordpress site to Drupal. Unfortunately in Wordpress, the content URL's were something like www.example.org/?p=123. My domain is still the same, but I want to do a redirect via htaccess as Drupal will not allow URL's to be www.example.org/?p=123. In other words, the content does not have the same URL as it did in Wordpress. For example, the new Drupal URL would be something like www.example.org/content/MyNewPage
I tried this in my .htaccess file and it does not work
Redirect 301 /\?p=375 http://www.example.org/content/MyNewPage
So I tried the below, but it does not work either.
Redirect 301 /\?p\=375 http://www.example.org/content/MyNewPage
Just as a test, I tried the below and it worked.
Redirect 301 http://www.example.org http://www.google.com
I made sure that my Redirect rule is at the top of the list in my .htaccess so it will be evaluated first. How do I fix this?

Answer 1

neither Redirect nor RedirectMatch allow you to specify a query string for the redirect source.
[Source]
You have to use mod-rewrite for redirecting based on query string:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^p=375$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.org/content/MyNewPage? [R=301,L]

Answer 2

You may consider use ModRewrite in your htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^p=345$ [NC]
RewriteRule index.php content/MyNewPage [NC,L,R=301]
</IfModule>
And you also may want to pass the old page id to the new URL concatenated (or maybe by QS?):
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^p=(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule index.php content/MyNewPage-%1 [NC,L,R=301]
</IfModule>