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I have a set of pages that I'm trying to redirect to new URLs. They have different query strings in the target URL than in the original URL.
http://localhost/people.php?who=a
should redirect to:
http://localhost/people/?t=leadership
And on and on...
I have the following set of rewrite rules and am obviously doing something very wrong.
RewriteRule ^people.php?who=a /people/?t=leadership [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^people.php?who=f /people/?t=faculty [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^people.php?who=p /people/?t=students [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^people.php?who=r /people/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^people.php /people/ [R=301,L]
What's happening is that the first 4 rules don't match and the page redirects to:
http://localhost/people/?who=a
I have tried the QSD flag, but it seems like my problem is that the rule isn't matching on the entire query string, not that it's passing the query string along.
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You can use URL Redirect to forward your visitors to a specific page at the destination URL and pass values via query strings to the destination.
htaccess rewrite rules can be used to direct requests for one subdirectory to a different location, such as an alternative subdirectory or even the domain root. In this example, requests to http://mydomain.com/folder1/ will be automatically redirected to http://mydomain.com/folder2/.
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.
You need to match against the %{QUERY_STRING} variable. The query string isn't part of the match in a RewriteRule:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^who=a$
RewriteRule ^people.php$ /people/?t=leadership [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^who=f$
RewriteRule ^people.php$ /people/?t=faculty [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^who=p$
RewriteRule ^people.php$ /people/?t=students [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^who=r$
RewriteRule ^people.php$ /people/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteRule ^people.php$ /people/ [R=301,L]
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