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[siiimon]

Hi,

I'm trying to do a .htaccess Redirect:

Redirect /foo http://www.site.com/bar.html

But when I try to access http://www.site.com/foo it brings up the URL http://www.site.com/bar.html?q=foo

which shows my initial page /foo and not my redirected page.

my .htaccess looks like:


RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.site.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

What is it that I'm missing?

Thanks!

[-Ed-]

Hi siiimon,

Sorry for the late response.

You are missing the rewrite option in Etomite in combination with the RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA] line.
This cause for all the /text-entries to be rewritten in to www.site.com/index.php?q=text-entries
It can be most depressing when you try to add a rewrite to the existing rewrite, and getting not what you want.

Maybe this is an option you could try:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/foo$ /bar.html

Mind you, I have not tried this, but this is the option to trigger a rewrite only if the condition is true.

to force a rewrite to /index as root you can add :

RedirectMatch 301 ^/$ /index

If you use site/ it will rewrite it to site/index
if you use site/test it will do nothing.

So to explain the above example if you use /foo it will rewrite, but /FOO will not.

Please let me know if this works for you, or not

I hope this help you

Edited by Ed Headset, 20 May 2012 - 07:56 PM.