Help with redirect rule on apache

b3rkl3y · 07-16-2009, 04:06 AM

Hello, I'm trying to make a redirect rule on my .htaccess but it's not working as planned.

Quote:

RedirectMatch 301 /status/(.*) http://domain.com/$1
RedirectMatch 301 /*tempskin=_rss2 http://domain.com/feed

The first rule works fine, but on the second rule i do have a problem.

When I type http://domain.com/?tempskin=_rss2 the redirect does not work, but if I change the ? to any other character or even group of characters, the redirect works fine. example:

http://domain.com/Atempskin=_rss2 will be redirected to http://domain.com/feed

But i do need to redirect the ?tempskin=_rss2
I already tried some variations on the redirect rule without any success.

Any suggestions?

thanks in advance!

carltm · 07-18-2009, 04:01 PM

The question mark is a special character that means to interpret the
following string(s) as GET variables. I'm pretty sure that's why it's
not working. The only work around I can think of is to change the URL
to something like http://domain.com/content/?tempskin=_rss2 and set
the redirect for /content.