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SiriusPhil
SiriusPhil

Reputation: 159

301 in htaccess is not redirecting

I have the htacess file in the root of a WordPress website (http://www.raynauds.org). I need to redirect all calls to:

http://www.raynauds.org/?p=2366

to:

http://www.raynauds.org/2012/08/11/dr-maureen-mayes-joins-raynauds-association-medical-advisory-board/

I am running Apache on a Linxus Server. The code below seems to be doing nothing to redirect the request. What am I doing wrong?

# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress
Redirect 301 /?p=2366 http://www.raynauds.org/2012/08/11/dr-maureen-mayes-joins-raynauds-association-medical-advisory-board/

Upvotes: 0

Views: 64

Answers (2)

Dehalion
Dehalion

Reputation: 757

Rewrite and Redirect are both applied to the URL before looking for the file to be executed.

Your RewriteRules both have the [L] flag stating that this will be the last Rule to modify the URL, so the Redirect will not be used for URLs matching one of the RewriteRules.

As the second RewriteRule will catch all requests your Redirect will not work. You can also redirect with a RewriteRule like

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  p=2366
RewriteRule . http://www.example.com [R=301,L]

Please also look at the available flags in the Manual

Of course this rule should go before RewriteCond/RewriteRule lines of Wordpress itself to work.

Upvotes: 1

Wireblue
Wireblue

Reputation: 1509

Move your Redirect 301 rule to the line below the RewriteBase statement.

Upvotes: 0

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