301 Redirect htaccess
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Hi Guys,
I have a website that has plenty of links with parameters. For example:
http://www.domainname.co.uk/index.php?app=ecom&ns=catshow&ref=Brandname-Golf-Shorts&sid=201v04gxs2hlozv161tfo43qk98583elI want to place a wildcard redirect on the .htaccess but don't know what exactly code for this. Ideally I want the URLs above to be:
http://www.domainname.co.uk/Category/Brandname-Golf-Shorts
Any help pls.
Thanks,
Brucz -
Hi Mark, has your question been answered?
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Hey Mark,
did this work for you?
Would be happy to hear back.In the meantime enjoy your weekend
Christoph
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Hey Mark,
it is only 07:21 right now, but I updated my original answer.
Hope you still accept my premature answer
Christoph
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Hey Christoph,
No worries, yes anything pre 8am is a risk (coffee depending)!
Look forward to your next deep post 8am comment
Cheers
Mark
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Hey Mark,
I should not answer questions in around 6 a.m. Sorry for that
My example works only when you want to redirect from an old domain to a new one - or from http://www.domain.com to http://domain.com
If you want the links to be on the same domain, things get tricky quite fast. I'll deep dive into the documentation and be right back
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Hey Christoph,
Glad our needs can spring you into action
Appreciate that very much, will test it out in the morning and post my findings.
Thanks again, thats great.
Mark
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Hey Mark,
Finally a question that I can answer (yay!)
I use the following code on my website:
<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.it-engelhardt.de/$1 [R=301]</ifmodule>It basically takes every URL like http://itengelhardt.de/microconf-2013-hub-page/
and just redirects it (301 of course!) to http://www.it-engelhardt.de/microconf-2013-hub-page/
UPDATE 1: (after carefully re-reading the question)
OK, hopefully this is the correct answer to your question:
**Assumptions I made: **
- You want to extract the category name from the query string (i.e. everything after the '?')
- "ns=catshow" in the query string stands for "category show" and tells the server to show a category
Then this is hopefully what you want:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ns=catshow
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ref=([^&]+)
RewriteRule ^index.php /Category/%1? [R=301]**What it does: **
- checks if "ns=catshow" is present in the query string
- extracts the value from the "ref=" variable in the query string and stores it in %1
- rewrites every request to the server, that matches conditions 1. and 2. and starts with "index.php" to /Category/%1
4. the "?" at the end of "/Category/%1?" tells the server to throw away the original query string - this might not be desirable, if not: remove the '?'
5. the [R=301] tells the server to redirect using HTTP 301Tested with: http://htaccess.madewithlove.be/
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