I am wanting to create some user friendly urls that redirect to dynamic pages (with query string values).

I can do want I want on my local server using Apache mod_rewrite, however I need to apply this to a hosted server.

The hosted server allows .htaccess to use the mod_alias commands (e.g. RedirectMatch), but not mod_rewrite. Whenever I add:
then it appears to be ignored.

I tried using a RedirectMatch e.g.:
but when I try to do to the http://www.mydomain.com/easy I end up with: http://www.mydomain.com/phpscript.php%3fdoc=213 which gives an error.

Is there any way to keep the query string using RedirectMatch, or is there some other way of achieving this?

Thanks

From the mod_alias docs:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_alias.html

Odd they wouldn't enable mod_rewrite... I suppose you could always write a php script to listen in on the "easy" urls and redirect accordingly... Perhaps even write one script and use symlinks. One of the env variables should tell you the uri, and from that you should be able to redirect.

I also thought it was odd that mod_alias was available, but mod_rewrite was not. I therefore contacted my hosting company and although they were not able to help in fixing the problem they did confirm that mod_rewrite was enabled.

I've therefore being playing around with the rule and I've found the problem.

Although the example code was correct for use in httpd.conf (or equivalent vhost file)

it is not for .htaccess. Instead the entry should have been (note the missing / at the start of the regexp).

I suspect that this is because the .htaccess is already in the / directory it applies to rewrite rules relative to that. I did not realize that this was how it worked, I thought it was always absolute to the virtual host.

So all working correctly now. Thanks for your help.