Mod rewrite help needed

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kalekom

Junior Member

Jul 25, 2008

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• May 21, 2009

• #1

I have a small problem with redirecting.

I would like to redirect visitors from this aadress:

Code:

http://mysite.com/modules.php?name=Services

to

Code:

http://mysite.com/something/

I currently have tried:

Code:

RewriteEngine ON

RewriteRule   ^modules\.php?name=Services$ http://www.mysite.com/something/ [R=301,L]

but no luck...

Hope that someone can help.

Thanks.

 

purebackend

Newbie

May 10, 2009

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• May 23, 2009

• #2

You can't just plain redirect on the query string, you have to add a RewriteCond such as

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond   %{QUERY_STRING} ^name=Services$
RewriteRule   ^modules\.php$ hxxp://w3.mysite.com/something/ [R=301,L]

 

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kalekom

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Jul 25, 2008

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• May 24, 2009
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• #3

Thanks, but this also passes query string to my new address. How to avoid that?

 

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neobyte

Junior Member

Sep 15, 2008

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• May 25, 2009

• #4

Try this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^modules\.php\?name=Services$ http://mysite.com/something/ [L]

 

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kalekom

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Jul 25, 2008

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• May 25, 2009
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• #5

Thanks, but this is not working at all...

neobyte said:

Try this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^modules\.php\?name=Services$ http://mysite.com/something/ [L]

Click to expand...

 

_Austin

Junior Member

Apr 9, 2009

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• May 26, 2009

• #6

Let me know if this works for you:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^contact$ modules.php?name=Services [L]

_Austin

 

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kalekom

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Jul 25, 2008

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• May 26, 2009
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• #7

Thanks for trying Austin!

I have basic understanding how mod_rewrite works and this is not what I'm looking for.

Solution posted by purebackend works but it also sends query string (?name=Services) to new address that it will become http://mysite.com/something/?name=Services. I would just like to send visitors from

Code:

http://mysite.com/modules.php?name=Services

to

http://mysite.com/something/

_Austin said:

Let me know if this works for you:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^contact$ modules.php?name=Services [L]

_Austin

Click to expand...

 

BlackMelvyn

Regular Member

Jul 8, 2008

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• May 26, 2009

• #8

Try this

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond   %{QUERY_STRING} ^name=Services$
RewriteRule   modules\.php /something/ [R=301,L]

 

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kalekom

Junior Member

Jul 25, 2008

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• May 26, 2009
• Thread Starter Thread Starter

• #9

BlackMelvyn said:

Try this

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond   %{QUERY_STRING} ^name=Services$
RewriteRule   modules\.php /something/ [R=301,L]

Click to expand...

Also passes query string name=Services so visitors will be redirected to www.mysite.com/something/?name=Services

 

BlackMelvyn

Regular Member

Jul 8, 2008

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• May 26, 2009

• #10

what about this

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond   %{QUERY_STRING} ^name=Services$
RewriteRule   modules\.php /something/? [R=301,L]

It will force query string to be null

 

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kalekom

Junior Member

Jul 25, 2008

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• May 26, 2009
• Thread Starter Thread Starter

• #11

BlackMelvyn said:

what about this

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond   %{QUERY_STRING} ^name=Services$
RewriteRule   modules\.php /something/? [R=301,L]

It will force query string to be null

Click to expand...

Thanks, this works ok.