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If I use this code, it's successful:
Redirect 301 /products.php http://website.com.au/product_123.php
But if I do this, it isn't:
Redirect 301 /products.php?id=123 http://website.com.au/product_123.php
Note the variable in the url is what's causing it to fail.
What am I doing wrong? Is there another way to do this? I really need the urls variables.
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A 301 signals a permanent redirect from one URL to another, meaning all users that request an old URL will be automatically sent to a new URL. A 301 redirect passes all ranking power from the old URL to the new URL, and is most commonly used when a page has been permanently moved or removed from a website.
Use a 301 redirect . htaccess to point an entire site to a different URL on a permanent basis. This is the most common type of redirect and is useful in most situations. In this example, we are redirecting to the "example.com" domain.
Because the WordPress 301 redirect is not always reliable, we recommend issuing the 301 redirect via your . htaccess file. Another benefit is that the . htaccess redirect is slightly faster than redirecting via PHP, because it is loaded even before the rest of the page.
You can't put query string parameters in the source URI path of the Redirect directive. You'll have to use mod_rewrite's %{QUERY_STRING} variable for that:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=123$
RewriteRule ^/?product\.php$ http://website.com.au/product_123.php? [L,R=301]
Or to make it more general:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([^&]+)
RewriteRule ^/?product\.php$ http://website.com.au/product_%1.php? [L,R=301]
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