QUERY_STRING not matching in rewrite?

[youradds]

Hi,

I'm trying to get a rewrite rule where it has p=analytics, to goto the homepage of my site (I've set it to google.com, just to make it more obvious when its working);

http://www.site.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?p=analytics

..the rule I have is:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} analytics
RewriteRule .*  [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.google.com/[/URL] [R=301,L]

But all that does, is load the page? (I'm trying to filter it out, as the page isn't used any more)

Any suggestions?

TIA

Andy

 

[johngiggs]

Andy,

I tested this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} analytics
RewriteRule (.*) [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.google.com?[/URL] [R=301,L]

And it redirected as expected. Also, without the ? at the end of the destination URL, the query string will get appended to the destination URL.

Hope that helps.

John

 

[youradds]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. Mmm, weird - maybe a caching issue or something. Will have another play with it later

Cheers

Andy

 

[SamBones]

Try this...

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} [b]^(.*)p=analytics(.*)$ [NC][/b]
RewriteRule .*  [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.google.com/[/URL] [R=301,L]

# or just

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} [b]^(.*)analytics(.*)$ [NC][/b]
RewriteRule .*  [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.google.com/[/URL] [R=301,L]

On some of my systems, the QUERY_STRING is everything appearing after the question mark ("?"), so the "p=" needs to be part of the condition, or you need to have wild cards to catch it.