Htaccess query

[AndrewAkesson]

I'm currently working on a live version of a clients website which has duplication issues. With .htaccess, I need to rewrite URL's of the following format:

vacancy.php?id=802 to vacancy/?id=802

I tried adding the following line but it returned a 500, and don't want to keep taking the site out.

RewriteRule ^vacancy/?id=([0-9]+)$ vacancy.php?id=$1 [R=301, L]

[ShaMenz]

Hi again Matt,

Actually, you don't need to be using the 301 at all. A simple rewrite will do what you are wanting.

If you do it like this:

RewriteRule ^vacancy/([0-9]+)$ vacancy.php?id=$1 [L]

your URLs would be a lot more friendly.

The resultant URLs would look like this:

/vacancy/12345

Hope that helps,

Sha

[ShaMenz]

Hi Matt,

The 500 Error is caused by the "space" in  [R=301, L]

Should be [R=301,L]

Hope that helps,

Sha

[Jinx14678]

Hi,

please back up your .htaccess before attempting

Redirect match might work, but only if you are redirecting all to one - Keep in mind the initial directive needs to be changed to your specific scenario, as well as the destination URL

RedirectMatch 301 ^page.php?id=(.*).htm$ http://www.example.com/content/$1.html

Or you could do it one by one -

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=1$
RewriteRule ^page.php$ http://www.example.com/content/page? [R=301,L]

Or here is a link to a resource (I HAVE NOT TESTED OR USED) but gets lots of good feedback, for helping you make easier work out of hundreds of dynamic redirects

http://www.mbstrategic.com/02/301-redirects-for-dynamic-urls-to-static-pages-with-htaccess/

Hope this helps

PS after a seconf look, your initial attempt might work, you just need a condition which would be similar to

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=1$

[AndrewAkesson]

Sorry, I should have been more clear. There are hundreds of vacancy ID's which change over time, so I need to use a rewrite rule to handle all cases now and in the future.

[danbocain]

Here's the format you may need to follow, I'm not 100% positive this will work for you but I know this is how 301s are setup:

redirect 301 vacancy.php?id=802  **yourdomain.com/path-to-location/**vacancy/?id=802