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apache.htaccessmod-rewrite
whizzkid
whizzkid

Reputation: 23

.htaccess rewrite issue - what am I missing?

All I want to do is a very simple redirect so that mypage.html is displayed in the browser, but index.php?s=1 is the page that is served up.

What am I missing here?

redirect 301 /mypage.html index.php?s=1
- this redirects the whole page as expected

RewriteRule ^/index.php?s=1$ mypage.html [R=301,L]
- this returns a 404 error when I access mypage.html

Upvotes: 0

Views: 62

Answers (2)

Olivier Pons
Olivier Pons

Reputation: 15788

You wrote:

mypage.html is displayed in the browser, but index.php?s=1 is the page that is served up.

If this is not a redirect you want to do (i.e. the URL in the client browser doesn't change) then you just have to make a rwriterule like this:

RewriteRule ^mypage\.html$ /index.php?s=1 [QSA,L]

Nothing more.

And now, if you want the user not to be able to type index.php?s=1 then add this rule:

RewriteRule ^/index\.php$ mypage.html [R=301,L]

So, all in all:

RewriteRule ^mypage\.html$ /index.php?s=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^/index\.php$ mypage.html [R=301,L]

Hope this helps

Upvotes: 0

Carsten
Carsten

Reputation: 18446

Do you want to redirect FROM mypage.html TO index.php?s=1?

If that is the case, you have your RewriteRule in the wrong order. It redirects you to mypage.html if you try to access index.php?s=1.

This shoud do the trick (no guarantees. I did not test the rule, just switched the filenames in your rule):

RewriteRule ^mypage.html$ /index.php?s=1 [R=301,L]

Upvotes: 1

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