Redirect based on query string

[TheDust]

I am trying to redirect a page in our eCommerce website but have been unsuccessful thus far in doing so. We need:

http://www.mydomain.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=3_28

to point to:

http://www.mydomain.com/shop/creative/solutions

Any suggestions? I've tried the following in my .htaccess file but it doesn't work properly:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{query_STRING} cPath=3_28
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.mcgillinc.com/shop/creative/solutions[/URL] [R=301,L]

 

[feherke]

Hi

Would be better to write it in all uppercases, as [tt]%{QUERY_STRING}[/tt], but your example works fine for me.

Give us more details about that "doesn't work properly". And ask mod_rewrite to log its activity.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[TheDust]

I'm afraid this is a rather foreign topic to me. I tried to add a line to my .htaccess file to log mod_rewrite activities to /var/log/rewrite.log:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteLog "/var/log/rewrite.log"

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} cPath=3_28
RewriteRule ^index.php$ [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.mydomain.com/shop/creative/solutions[/URL] [R=301,L]

When I placed this on the server, I got an Internal Server Error across the entire website. So I've been unable to log mod_rewrite's activities, but basically what is happening is when I visit

http://www.mydomain.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=3_28,

it is not redirecting anywhere. If someone can help shed some light on this, it would help greatly.

 

[feherke]

Hi

You can not put [tt]RewriteLog[/tt] directive into a local configuration file. Put it in httpd.conf.

And try the expression less restrictive. For example

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} [red].*[/red]cPath=3_28[red].*[/red]
RewriteRule index.php [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.mydomain.com/shop/creative/solutions[/URL] [R=301,L]

( Note, that I removed the caret ( ^ ) and dolar ( $ ) signs. )

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[TheDust]

I got this to work, by moving the .htaccess out of the site root and into the /shop directory. Not sure why, but that worked... thanks for your help. Any idea why it didn't work in the site root?