I have an old website that URLs were like /page.aspx?sch=XXXX&prg=YYYY. I want to redirect those old URLs to my new website's URLs. I'm trying to use an .htaccess file to do the trick but I couldn't get it work. What I want is:
/page.aspx?sch=XXXX&prg=YYYY ==> /page/sch/XXXX/prg/YYYY
If someone could helped me, I'd be very pleased.
Thanks...
If there are only these two URL parameters and they are only used in this order, you can do the following:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^sch=([^&]+)&prg=([^&]+)$
RewriteRule ^page\.aspx$ /page/sch/%1/prg/%2? [L,R=301]
Otherwise you will need to extract these parameters one by one and put them in in right order before doing that redirect.
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i have a problem with a htaccess files and i cannot figure it what is the problem.
The site has url rewriting for seo purposes in place so:
www.website.com/page/seo-friendly-url
is rewritten to
www.website.com/page.php?seo=seo-friendly-url
this is done with the following
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
Rewriterule ^page/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ page.php?seo=$1 [NC,L]
Now the problem is that i have to redirect some pages that are already indexed by the search engines to their new destination as they are no more available, for example:
www.website.com/page/seo-friendly-url
has to be redirected to
www.website.com/page/another-seo-friendly-url
I have tried something like this but it is not working
Rewriterule ^page/seo-friendly-url$ page/another-seo-friendly-url [R,NC,L]
also this one is not working
Rewriterule ^page/seo-friendly-url$ page.php?seo=another-seo-friendly-url [R,NC,L]
This seems pretty stupid but i can't find the problem :-/
Thank you for your help
Ema
Edit, for anubhava:
Hi,
no i have already set the rewriting for that.
What i'm trying to achieve is redirect an already rewrited link.
Let me explain myself better:
At the moment i have this url that is indexed by Google (or any other search engine) in the form of a beautified url (seo friendly). The url has this form:
www.website.com/page/seo-friendly-url
I have already set a rule in the htaccess so the previous link is rewritten and goes to a php page with a query string that is used to display some content.
The page and the query are in this form:
www.website.com/page.php?seo=seo-friendly-url
So basically i'm using the last part of the first url as a query parameter for the second url.
This is achieved (and works) through the following code here below:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
Rewriterule ^page/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ page.php?seo=$1 [NC,L]
So far so good.
Now what i need to achieve is to redirect this url, that has been deleted:
www.website.com/page/seo-friendly-url
to go to a new page
www.website.com/page/another-seo-friendly-url
Of course the same rules applies to this new url (www.website.com/page/another-seo-friendly-url -->is already rewrited to--> www.website.com/page.php?seo=another-seo-friendly-url)
What do i need to do to do the reewriting right?
Thanks
You need this extra rule before your existing rule:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+page\.php\?seo=([^\s&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /page/%1? [R=301,L]
Rewriterule ^page/([\w-]+)$ page.php?seo=$1 [NC,L,QSA]
Just add redirects like this:
RewriteRule page/seo-friendly-url /page/new-url [R=301,L]
Important: this rules have to be above your existing rewrites because of the L flag in your rewrites
The [L] flag causes mod_rewrite to stop processing the rule set. In most contexts, this means that if the rule matches, no further rules will be processed.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/rewrite/flags.html#flag_l
Edit
You want to redirect the old URL to avoid duplicate content (rewrite=internal, redirect=HTTP 301)
Maybe you are open for solutions thinking in another direction.
I would try to handle this in the application, no through rewrites. Right now the GET parameter seo is handled in page.php. Isn't it an idea to extend this in that way one product can be identified through multiple seo aliases? If one product has to be taken off a similar one will then own this alias (simply a change of one row in the database).
As I don't know what software you are using this may be not possible.
My site has a url like this
http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?page=doctors&docid=99
Using SEO rewrite
RewriteRule ^doctors/([0-9]+)/(.*).html$ index.php?page=doctors&docid=$1 [L]
I get
www.mydomain.com/doctors/13/Dr.-John-Smith.html
But I want a more friendly url like this
www.mydomain.com/Dr.-John-Smith.html
How can I achive this url.
REWRITING QUERY STRINGS
If you are hired to recreate an existing website from scratch, you might use URL rewriting to redirect the 20 most popular URLs on the old website to the locations on the new website. This could involve redirecting things like prod.php?id=20 to products/great-product/2342, which itself gets redirected to the actual product page.
Apache’s RewriteRule applies only to the path in the URL, not to parameters like id=20. To do this type of rewriting, you will need to refer to the Apache environment variable %{QUERY_STRING}. This can be accomplished like so:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=20$
RewriteRule ^prod.php$ ^products/great-product/2342$ [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^products/(.*)/([0-9]+)$ ^productview.php?id=$1 [L]
In this example, the first RewriteRule triggers a permanent redirect from the old website’s URL to the new website’s URL. The second rule rewrites the new URL to the actual PHP page that displays the product.
I hope this helps, find out a lot more about rewrites here:
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/02/introduction-to-url-rewriting/
It's laid out in a pretty straight forward fashion. Hope that helps, please let me know if you have any other questions. Thank you.
I've migrated the content of a site from one domain to another. I have .htaccess Rewrite set up successfully to redirect any request to the old domain to the same location on the new domain, which is working fine, using the following code:
RewriteEngine On
rewritecond %{http_host} ^roundeltable.com
rewriteRule ^(.*) http://wheelspin.tv/$1 [R=301,L]
However, I want to go a little further. When somebody simply requests the old TLD (http://roundeltable.com/) I want them to be redirected to a specific page within the new domain (http://wheelspin.tv/rt). If they make a request to any other location from the old domain (for example, http://roundeltable.com/about) I want them to be sent to that exact same place at the new domain (http://wheelspin.tv/about) the way they currently are now.
Is this possible? If so, how?
So I've found the solution to this issue, which ended up being provided by somebody from Media Temple's service department. Here's the entire code required in the .htaccess file to make this work:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^$ http://wheelspin.tv/rt/ [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://wheelspin.tv/$1
Obviously substitute whatever domain you want to redirect to in place of mine, but that's the solution for my example. Thanks for the help!
If you want to see all the details on my solution, I have it here: christiaanconover.com/media-temple-service-rocks/
Here is my setup :
I have a website located at www.cabsh.org/drupal
I want to use mod_rewrite to do 2 things :
Redirect www.cabsh.org to http://www.cabsh.org/drupal/index.php (I got this one)
Rewrite /www.cabsh.org/drupal/index.php to www.cabsh.org/site/index.php
I cannot figure how to achieve the 2nd point. I'm using .htaccess files since I cannot use the main server configuration. Can anyone help me getting this to work?
Thanks!
From what I get from your comment, you just want something like this:
RewriteEngine on
# Prevent a request directly to the /drupal folder
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]+\s/drupal/
RewriteRule ^drupal/(.*)$ /site/$1 [R=301,L]
# Change a request for /site/(anything) to /drupal/(anything)
RewriteRule ^site/(.*)$ /drupal/$1
Be careful though, since Drupal (being in the Drupal folder) might generate links that point to /drupal instead of /site, which is seemingly not what you want.
I am having problems doing a redirect for some URLS, the ones from the old site that have a ? sign, won't redirect, every other URL will do.
example:
OLD:
/laser-alignment-resources/presentations.cfm?pres=diaphragm
NEW:
http://www.acquip.com/en/presentations/47-presentation-internal-laser-diaphragm-alignment
Won't work, I am sure I did something wrong but I am a n00b when it comes to .htaccess
all the URLs are in the same format, 14 in total:
OLD:/laser-alignment-resources/presentations.cfm?pres=gas
New:http://www.acquip.com/en/presentations/48-presentation-gas-turbine-thermal-alignment
OLD: /laser-alignment-resources/presentations.cfm?pres=train
NEW:http://www.acquip.com/en/presentations/49-presentation-complete-machine-train-alignment
any help will be appreciated.
Your question isn't clear on how you're trying to perform the redirects in your .htaccess file, so for next time I'd recommend that you post some samples of the code that you've tried so that we can help you more easily.
Based on your Apache tag and the problem you're describing, I'm going to assume that you were using mod_alias though, trying to do something like this:
Redirect 301 /laser-alignment-resources/presentations.cfm?pres=diaphragm http://www.acquip.com/en/presentations/47-presentation-internal-laser-diaphragm-alignment
This doesn't work though, as the Redirect directive seems to only examine the path portion of the request, and not the query string.
If you have mod_rewrite available, you can setup rewrite rules for the URLs that you need to redirect based on their query strings. This would look something like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} =pres=diaphragm
RewriteRule ^laser-alignment-resources/presentations\.cfm$ http://www.acquip.com/en/presentations/47-presentation-internal-laser-diaphragm-alignment [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} =pres=gas
RewriteRule ^laser-alignment-resources/presentations\.cfm$ http://www.acquip.com/en/presentations/48-presentation-gas-turbine-thermal-alignment [R=301,L]
...and so on. You can keep your currently working Redirect statements, as they should work fine side-by-side with these rules.