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Silvertiger
Silvertiger

Reputation: 1680

htaccess redirect "/?id=(.*)", but only at the root?

I have been unable to get a redirect to work. The behavior I was hoping to have would redirect from:

www.mysite.com/?id=12345

to 

www.mysite.com/?other_id=12345

The rule I wrote seems to grab any url matching the very end like:

www.mysite.com/directory/another/?id=12345

I just want this to work at the root level, not all levels.

The rule I currently have is as follows:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*&)?id=([^&]+)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%{SERVER_NAME}/?other_id=%2 [R=301,L]

For some reason I had to include the first regex as it was not accepting it without it. Without the first ^(.*&) It kept saying that the site was creating a redirect that would not work and bombing out, which may be a part of my problem.

IS there a better way to write this rule? or is a root level match alone not possible?

Thank you,

Silvertiger

Upvotes: 2

Views: 148

Answers (1)

Jon Lin
Jon Lin

Reputation: 143886

Change your regex from ^(.*)$ to `^$``:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*&)?id=([^&]+)$
RewriteRule ^$ http://%{SERVER_NAME}/?other_id=%2 [R=301,L]

The ^(.*)$ regex matches any request URI, so /, and /foo and /dir1/dir2/dir3/file.txt will all match. But the ^$ only matches /.

Upvotes: 2

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