htaccess redirect question...

[matmat is verified member.]

Have worked it out now..... Thank you all for your help!

 

[illtemper]

I made a coding mistake and some URLs have been indexed which arnt correct.

sitename.co.uk/whiteproduct/?q=White&page=6&sort=relevance

The "page=6" part is the only bit that changes. But I can add each string individualy to htaccess if easier, as only a few of these pages indexed.

I want the URL to 301 to...

sitename.co.uk/search.php?q=White&page=6&sort=relevance

Please note I cant just tell htaccess to point everything inside whiteproduct folder to go back to index page as there is a content page there...

Thanks

You need something like:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^whiteproduct/([^/.]+)/?$ /search.php?q=$1 [R,L]

I'll have another look tomorrow if that doesn't work

 

[matmat is verified member.]

Thanks, thats the sort of thing I have been trying...

Just tried exactly what you put, but didnt work.

 

[matmat is verified member.]

Its something to do with the question mark which is stopping it from working so I see from a quick search in Google!

 

[matmat is verified member.]

I worked out this in the end...

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^q=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ http://www.sitename.co.uk? [L,R=301]

 

[illtemper]

Glad you got it sorted, mod_rewrite can be a PITA lol and I had just looked at too much code yday to figure it out