Apache redirect dynamic url

eteck · 07-06-2010, 10:10 PM

Hi I wish to redirect http://spam.com/index.php?spam=cool to http://spam.com/cool/

I've tried the following in .htaccess:

Code:

RedirectMatch 301 ^(.*)spam=cool$ http://www.spam.com/cool

How doesn't this work? Any ideas how to make it work?

smoker · 07-06-2010, 11:06 PM

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^spam=cool
RewriteRule  ^/$  /cool? [L]

perhaps ?

eteck · 07-07-2010, 01:00 AM

Close.

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^spam=cool
RewriteRule  ^(.*)$  /cool? [L]

Does the job. Thx.

eteck · 07-07-2010, 01:08 AM

What about rewriting a user alias? E.g. http://www.spam.com/~dude to http://www.spam.com, the following doesn't work:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.spam.com/~dude
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.spam.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]

smoker · 07-07-2010, 11:39 AM

I would have though REQUEST_URI would be more suited although you could use mod_userdir. I don't think you can use R=permanent in rewrite rules.

eteck · 07-07-2010, 09:38 PM

Can you please give an example as I get: "This webpage has a redirect loop." For:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^www.spam.com/~dude
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.spam.com/ [R,L]

smoker · 07-07-2010, 10:10 PM

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/~dude
RewriteRule ^(.*) / [L]

Read the docs.

! = does not equal
R forces an external redirect, so the L is never encountered and your second line just goes round in circles.

eteck · 07-07-2010, 10:48 PM

Didn't work, that http://www.spam.com/~dude redirected me to http://www.spam.com/public_html/~cole