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php.htaccessmod-rewritehttp-redirect
user2872083
user2872083

Reputation: 23

.htaccess not redirecting when url contains ? or =

Can anyone tell me how to redirect if incoming URL contains certain text as having real trouble with this..

For instance:

RedirectMatch 301 /files/9453041/batch-BiDA http://secondsite.com (THIS WORKS)

RedirectMatch 301 /?load=/files/9453041/batch-BiDA http://secondsite.com (THIS DOESNT WORK)

Only the first of the above two redirects work, not sure why but the second containing the /?load= doesnt redirect. Can someone either tell me what i need change on the second line for it to work?

Or perhaps I was thinking if it couldnt be made to work if it would be possible to redirect every incoming url that has "mysite.com/?load=/whatever/whatever" to "mysite.com/whatever/whatever"?

Many thanks for any help...

Upvotes: 1

Views: 93

Answers (1)

Jon Lin
Jon Lin

Reputation: 143906

In order to match query strings (everything after the ?), you need to match against the %{QUERY_STRING} variable using a rewrite condition:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^load=/files/9453041/batch-BiDA
RewriteRule ^/?$ http://secondsite.com/ [L,R=301]

You can also use the [OR]:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^load=/files/9453041/batch-BiDA [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^load=/files/35356441/batch-546A 
RewriteRule ^/?$ http://secondsite.com/ [L,R=301]

etc.

But if you don't care what follows the /files/ part, just match the numebrs:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^load=/files/[0-9]+/batch-[0-9A-Za-z]+ 
RewriteRule ^/?$ http://secondsite.com/ [L,R=301]

Upvotes: 0

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