301 Redirect Url With A "?" In It To A New Domain?

[mdedens]

Hi,

 

I have a 301 redirect setup in an old domain's htaccess file, but my URLs with "?" "&" and "%20" don't seem to be redirecting. So I thought I would ask the experts and see if anyone knows how to redirect a dynamic URL with special characters on an old domain to a static URL on new domain.

 

(*** added so no URLs are in post)

 

So I would like this URL:

http://***.oldomain.***/olddir/directory.php?CAT=100&catName=Widgets

To go to this URL:

http://***.newdomain.***/widgets.php

 

 

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Example:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^olddomain\.com$ [NC]

redirect 301 /olddir/directory.php?CAT=100&catName=Widgets http://***.newdomain.***/widgets.php

 

Thanks for any advice!

[TCH-Andy]

Try something like;

 

>RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /olddir/directory\.php\?CAT=([^&]+)&catname([^\ ]+)\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://***.newdomain.***/%2.php? [R=301,L]

[mdedens]

Hi Andy,

 

Thanks for taking a crack at it. I tried the code, but still can't get it to work. The pages show up as normal.

 

If this is going to be too complicated or time consuming to troubleshoot, is there an alternate method that could be used to redirect any URLs using that directory.php file.

 

So any page that calls "directory.php" and no matter what comes after it, would redirect to one page on a new domain?

 

like this URL:

http://***.oldomain.***/olddir/directory.php?CAT=100&catName=Widgets

would go to this URL:

http://***.newdomain.***/directory.php'>http://***.newdomain.***/directory.php

 

this URL:

http://***.oldomain.***/olddir/directory.php?CAT=5654&catName=MoreWidgets

would go to this URL:

http://***.newdomain.***/directory.php

 

 

Thanks again for your help!

[click]

I believe something like this should do what you want.

 

>RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?olddomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^olddir/directory\.php$ http://www.newdomain.com/directory.php [R=301,L]

[mdedens]

Hi Click

 

I gave it a try but the old page still shows up normally. Both directory.php and any version with strings of characters after it show up fine.

 

Also, I only put the code given here in the htaccess.

[TCH-Andy]

It sounds as if you have something else going on. Can you PM me the domain name ?

[mdedens]

Finally found what I needed... thanks again for all your help. It pointed me in the right direction

 

>Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?olddomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/olddir/
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} CAT=100&catName=Widgets
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://***.newdomain.***/widgets.php? [R=301,L]

[click]

I guess I misunderstood. I thought you were wanting to ignore the query string and redirect all requests to the new URL.

 

Anyhow, I'm glad you figured it out.