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Brent Friar
Brent Friar

Reputation: 10609

Redirecting a URL with query string

I've got a URL with a query string that I am trying to redirect and I just can't get it to work. The original URL not only has a query string, it's a Joomla SEF URL and contains a ? within the URL as well. It's a mess. This is the original URL:

http://www.domain.com/menu-item/item/1234-article-title-here?.html&utm_source=XYZ&utm_medium=ABC&utm_campaign=the+campaign+name

I've tried several different rewrite conditions and rules and none I have tried are working. I am also putting the statements in .htaccess in the root since there are no actual sub directories. The query string does not need to transfer.

I tried this and it didn't work:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/menu-item/item/1234-article-title-here\?\.html$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/new-page.html? [R=302,L]

I also tried

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/menu-item/item/1234-article-title-here$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/new-page.html? [R=302,L]

And this

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^1234-article-title-here\?\.html$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/new-page.html? [R=302,L]

and this

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^1234-article-title-here$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/new-page.html? [R=302,L]

As well as the answer from @jon lin. I ended up finding a redirect that worked, posted below.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1061

Answers (2)

Brent Friar
Brent Friar

Reputation: 10609

This is what finally ended up working:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/menu-item/item/1234-article-title-here$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/new-page.html? [R=302,L]

Upvotes: 1

Jon Lin
Jon Lin

Reputation: 143866

Have you tried:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^\.html&utm_source=XYZ&utm_medium=ABC&utm_campaign=the+campaign+name$
RewriteRule ^menu-item/item/1234-article-title-here$ /page-you-want-to-redirect-to? [L,R=301]

The ? at the end of the target removes the query string so that it doesn't get included in the redirect.

Upvotes: 0

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