I have this old survey link that is has been superseded by another link, so basically I want anyone trying to access the URL:
http://mywebsite.com/survey/view_survey.php?surveyID=1
To be redirected to:
http://mywebsite.com/survey/view_survey.php?surveyID=2
Can I do this in the Apache configuration or htaccess file?
I tried the following rule in the Redirect section of my httpd.conf file:
Redirect 301 /survey/view_survey.php?surveyID=1 http://mywebsite.com/survey/view_survey.php?surveyID=2
But it doesn't work. I am suspecting that the GET parameters are not used when processing the rule.
Is my only option to hack my code to redirect on a specific surveyID?
Following the suggestion of using the Rewrite rules, I tried the following in my .htaccess file:
RewriteRule ^survey/view_survey\.php\?surveyID=1525$ /survey/view_survey.php?sur
veyID=1607
But that doesn't work. I do have the rewrite engine up and running, because I have another rewrite rule currently running.
Try this in a .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|.*&)surveyID=1525(&.*|$)
RewriteRule ^survey/view_survey\.php$ /survey/view_survey.php?%1surveyID=1607%2 [L,R=301]
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^surveyID=1525$
RewriteRule ^/survey/view_survey\.php /survey/view_survey.php?surveyID=1607 [R=301]
Check out the QSA portion of the mod_rewrite.
It does GET string manipulation.
There might be a possible duplicate of this question and it is solved if this solution doesnt work for you:
Apache Redirect 301 fails when using GET parameters, such as ?blah=
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I have a sneaking suspicion this is not possible, but figured I would ask regardless.
Is it at all possible to take a URL passed to a server in the form of:
http://domain.com/index.php?Action=Controller/Action&one=1&two=2&three=3
And rewrite it to appear as:
http://domain.com/Controller/Action/1/2/3
I am trying to clean up an borderline ancient project to support "Pretty URLs" and I would really like to make the URLs display a bit nicer. I know I could setup a 301 header redirect to the new URL, but I would prefer to avoid that overhead if at all possible.
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
To get
http://domain.com/index.php?Action=Controller/Action&one=1&two=2&three=3
To appear as
http://domain.com/Controller/Action/1/2/3
You will need to use %{QUERY_STRING} to capture the query string data. Your .htaccess file will look like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^Action=Controller/Action&one=(\d+)&two=(\d+)&three=(\d+)
RewriteRule ^.+ /Controller/Action/%1/%2/%3 [R=301,L]
This will set up a permanent redirect to the new page. You can play around and test .htaccess rewrite rules here: htaccess.madewithlove.be
You can use this code in your DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ index.php?Action=$1/$2&one=$3&two=$4&three=$5 [L,QSA]
I moved my website to a new server with a new CMS so I had to make a lot of 301 Redirects. 'Normal' 301 redirects didn't recognize the url path of my old urls so I tried to make RewriteRules, this is what it looks like now:
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^Category http://www.example.com/category [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^Category/Subcategory http://www.example.com/category-subcategory [R=301,L]
The first RewriteRule works, but as soon as there is a second path in the old url (the second example) the redirect will point to the main cateagy and not the subcategory. So it's basically ignoring the url paths...
Try to invert your rules, or to add a $ at the end of the first one :
RewriteRule ^Category$ http://www.example.com/category [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^Category/Subcategory http://www.example.com/category-subcategory [R=301,L]
Explanation : Category/Subcategory is also matching the first rule, and as you have use a L flag in the first one, Apache will just use this first rule and don't bother to look further.
For general purpose solution, quoting from apache rewrite guide:
Move Homedirs to Different Webserver Description:
Many webmasters have asked for a solution to the following situation:
They wanted to redirect just all homedirs on a webserver to another webserver. They usually need such things when establishing a newer webserver which will replace the old one over time.
Solution:
The solution is trivial with mod_rewrite. On the old webserver we just
redirect all /~user/anypath URLs to http://example.com/~user/anypath.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/~(.+) http://example.com/~$1 [R,L]
In your case URL structure has changed so ôkio's suggestion would work.
I'm having a problem with one of my rewrite rules. I would like to redirect all of the following URL's to another URL without the query string.
/gallery/products.aspx?C=9&SC=&ID=428&P=10
/gallery/products.aspx?C=2&SC=2&ID=128&P=1
/gallery/products.aspx?ID=147&C=2&SC=&P=7
/gallery/products.aspx?ID=1337&C=15&SC=&P=1
/gallery/products.aspx?ID=1532&C=3&SC=&P=2
/gallery/products.aspx?C=9&SC=&ID=1489&P=1
/gallery/products.aspx?C=7&SC=&ID=100&P=2
/gallery/products.aspx?C=2
/gallery/products.aspx?ID=1328&C=14&SC=11&P=17
/gallery/products.aspx?C=1&SC=&ID=767&P=3
/gallery/products.aspx?ID=1270&C=1&SC=&P=26
and I have this in my .htaccess file
RewriteRule ^gallery/products.aspx http://www.domain.com/category/? [L,R=301]
but it's not working. I checked it in a .htaccess simulator and it found the rule then redirected, but when I upload to my server, it doesn't redirect. I've also tried some other rules with no luck
I was finally able to make this work with the following:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} www.domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule products.aspx http://www.domain.com/category? [L,R=301]
SO I have this in my .htaccess file
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /core/
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page=([0-9]+)$
RewriteRule ^page page/%1/? [L]
my url is
http://localhost/core/page.php?page=8
with the rules applied I'm getting..
Not Found
The requested URL /core/page/8/ was not found on this server.
This is running on wampserver 2.2
the file structure looks like
c:/wamp/www/core
the .htaccess is inside the /core/ directory.
What is it that I'm missing.. i've checked my apache.conf file and it looks fine.
I think you got it the wrong way around. When logically thinking of rewriting you don't rewrite original URL to new URL (for example page.php?page=8 to page/8/) you actually rewrite page/8/ to page.php?page=8. You tell the server how it should interpret the unfamiliar URL.
So if I understood correctly what you want to achieve is:
User visits localhost/core/page/8/
User is served (under the hood) localhost/core/page.php?page=8
I believe the following RewriteRule will do the trick (The query string condition is not necessary):
RewriteRule ^page/(\d+)/$ page.php?page=$1 [L]
I've been fighting with mod-rewrite for a while.
Basically, I have a website that I'm moving to a difference namespace/directory.
What I'd like to do is change urls that look like this:
http://mydomain.com/index.php?a=xxxxxxxxxx
These urls will always have "index.php?a=". I have a different/new site that also has an index.php file, so it's important that I do a rewrite only when a= is in the URL.
The new url should be like
http://mydomain.com/ns1/index.php?a=xxxxxxxxxxx
Seems pretty simple, but i can't seem to get mod_rewrite to do it for me, here's what I have:
# rewrite old urls to new namespace
RewriteRule ^/index.php\?a=(.*)$ /gc1/index.php\?x=1&a=$1 [R=301,L]
See anything wrong?
You can use this rule to add a prefix to the path:
RewriteRule !^ns1/ /ns1%{REQUEST_URI} [L]
This rule prefixes the URI path with /ns1 if the path is not already starting with it.
I believe that RewriteRule is only valid for paths, (I.e. it won't take into account any query parameters that you add.)
You are probably better off doing this in the PHP file itself.
// On old site
if($_GET['a']=="xxxxxxx"){
header("Location: /ns1/index.php?a=".$_GET['a']);
die();
}
Thanks to both of you.
I was able to do it:
# rewrite old urls to new ns1 namespace
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^a=.*$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/ns1/.*$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ns1$1 [R=301,L]