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Rønny Schmatzler
Rønny Schmatzler

Reputation: 77

.htaccess - Rewrite query string and redirect to directory

I have some old URL's that I want to fix because of a forum migration.

The old URL's look like: http://www.example.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=666

I want to redirect them to: http://www.example.com/forum/missions/666

My approach is this, but I'm scratching my head, because it doesn't work at all:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}     ^TOPIC_ID=(.*)$    [NC]
RewriteRule ^/forum$       /forum/missions/%1      [NC,L,R=301]

Upvotes: 1

Views: 96

Answers (2)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785118

Assuming there is no .htaccess in `/forum/, you can use this first rule in your root .htaccess:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^TOPIC_ID=([^&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^forum/topic\.asp$ /forum/missions/%1? [NC,L,R=302]

If there is a .htaccess in /forum/, then you can use this first rule in your /forum/.htaccess:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^TOPIC_ID=([^&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^topic\.asp$ /forum/missions/%1? [NC,L,R=302]

Upvotes: 1

sodawillow
sodawillow

Reputation: 13176

I'd suggest this, but cannot really try from here :)

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /

    RewriteRule ^forum/topic.asp\?TOPIC_ID=([0-9]+)$ forum/missions/$1 [L]

</IfModule>

Upvotes: 0

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