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Mohammed Khalil Ait Brahim
9,539 PointsRedirection not properly working
Hello Everyone, Today I was trying to redirect from a url to another. Unfortunately, it seems my code isn't working :
I want to redirect users from :
http://localhost/contact/?status=thanks
to :
http://localhost/contact/thanks/
Here is my .htaccess file
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^shirts/$ /shirts/shirts.php
RewriteRule ^shirts/([0-9]+)/$ /shirts/shirt.php?id=$1
RewriteRule ^receipt\.php$ /receipt/ [R=301]
RewriteRule ^contact\.php$ /contact/ [R=301]
RewriteRule ^shirts\.php$ /shirts/ [R=301]
RewriteRule ^(shirts/[0-9]+)$ /$1/ [R=301]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([0-9]+)$
RewriteRule ^shirt.php$ /shirts/%1/? [R=301]
RewriteRule ^contact/thanks/$ contact/?status=thanks
RewriteRule ^(contact/thanks)$ /$1/ [R=301]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^status=(thanks)$
RewriteRule ^contact/\?status=thanks$ /contact/%1/? [R=301]
PS: I cleared my cache several times
1 Answer
Becky Hirsch
14,069 PointsHi Mohammed! This alone worked for me:
RewriteRule ^contact/thanks/$ /contact/?status=thanks
There are some other things you have in there that I don't have in my .htaccess. Here is what I have:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^shirts/$ /shirts/shirts.php
RewriteRule ^shirts/([0-9]+)/$ /shirts/shirt.php?id=$1
RewriteRule ^receipt.php$ /receipt/ [R=301]
RewriteRule ^contact.php$ /contact/ [R=301]
RewriteRule ^shirts.php$ /shirts/ [R=301]
RewriteRule ^(shirts/[0-9]+)$ /$1/ [R=301]
RewriteRule ^contact/thanks/$ /contact/?status=thanks
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([0-9]+)$
RewriteRule ^shirt.php$ /shirts/%1/? [R=301]
I hope that works for you!
Mohammed Khalil Ait Brahim
9,539 PointsMohammed Khalil Ait Brahim
9,539 PointsI am actually talking about the extra challenge where we have to redirect someone who has an older link to the new link without creating a new page so we have to use RewriteCond ins the same way but for some reason it doesn't work for me
So if user enters this as the url : http://localhost/contact/?status=thanks
The rewrite condition would make it look like this http://localhost/contact/thanks/
In the same way the t-shirt page description url works