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JohnG
JohnG

Reputation: 497

RewriteRule redirect URL with query string in htaccess

I've no experience with regex, and the redirect rule I'm trying to put in my .htaccess file for a WordPress site is having no effect.

I want to redirect:

https://example.com/example/?person=name

to

https://example.com/example/people/name

From reading, I figure my rule ought to be:

RewriteRule  \?person=(.*) https://example.com/example/people/$1 [R=301,L]

What am I missing/doing wrong?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 51

Answers (1)

MrWhite
MrWhite

Reputation: 45829

From reading, I figure my rule ought to be:

RewriteRule  \?person=(.*) https://example.com/example/people/$1 [R=301,L]

You can't match the query string part of the URL using the RewriteRule pattern. The RewriteRule pattern matches against the requested URL-path only. To match the query string you need to use a condition and check the QUERY_STRING server variable.

For example:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^person=([^&]*)
RewriteRule ^example/$ /example/people/%1 [QSD,R=302,L]

This needs to go before the existing WordPress directives.

This matches the URL-path exactly as stated in your question, ie. /example/.

%1 (as opposed to $1) is a backreference to the last matched condition, ie. the value of the person URL parameter, that occurs as the first URL parameter.

The QSD (Query String Discard) flag (Apache 2.4+) is required to remove the query string from the target URL. If you are still on Apache 2.2 then append an empty query string (ie. append a ?) to the end of the subsitution string instead.

Upvotes: 1

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