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toomanyairmiles
toomanyairmiles

Reputation: 6485

htaccess redirects that ignore query string

I've recently inherited a webserver whose IP previously belonged to a well known band's forums.

Problem is I'm now drowning in 404 errors!

The URLs in question look like this:

http://[server_ip]/forum/ucp.php?mode=register&coppa=0
http://[server_ip]/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=45330
http://[server_ip]/forum/index.php+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Result:+%ED%E5+%...
http://[server_ip]/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=44597&start=0

In an ideal world I would like to redirect any traffic going to /forum/ucp.php, /forum/viewtopic.php or /forum/index.php elsewhere regardless of query string.

Or anything going to /forum/.* elsewhere, if that's doable.

I've tried a number of different solutions with little success, any help appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1238

Answers (2)

Ulrich Palha
Ulrich Palha

Reputation: 9509

Assuming that you want to redirect all traffic to /forum/.* to http://mysite.com/somedirectory, which you can replace with the actual URL you wish to redirect to, you can add the following to the .htaccess in the root directory of your sites domain.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

#for any request starting with forum
RewriteRule ^forum/ http://mysite.com/somedirectory? [NC,L,R=302]

Be sure to keep the ? if you want to remove the query string params from the original query. If you want to make it a permanent redirect, change the 302 to a 301.

Upvotes: 2

jocken
jocken

Reputation: 324

Don't really know what you have tried so far but this site will probably help you.

http://perishablepress.com/press/2006/01/10/stupid-htaccess-tricks/#redirects

Upvotes: 0

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