WordPress Redirect

[w1nk5]

Please help me understand why my rules highlighted in red don't work.

URL
www . markrequenaphotography . ca/wedding-photography/?serv=Professional%20Wedding%20Photography&loc=Kent%20Bridge

.htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^serv=(.*?)&loc=([^/]*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.markrequenaphotography.ca/%1/%2/? [R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^markrequena\.ca$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.markrequena\.ca$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^markrequenaphotography\.com$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^markrequena\.com$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.markrequena\.com$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^requena\.co\.uk$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.requena\.co\.uk$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.markrequenaphotography\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.markrequenaphotography.ca [R=301,L]

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Output
www . markrequenaphotography . ca/wedding-photography/?serv=Professional%20Wedding%20Photography&loc=Kent%20Bridge

[dklynn]

From my reading of what you've shown, the resultant URI should have been Professional%20Wedding%20Photography/loc=Kent%20Bridge which should not exist as a file, thus, /index.phpl

Regards,

DK

[Jeff Mott]

@w1nk5

Notice the "last" flag, highlighted in red.

RewriteRule (.*) http://www.markrequenaphotography.ca/%1/%2/? [R=301,L]

Without that, all the other rewrite rules are still applied, in particular the last rewrite rule, which rewrites to index.php.

[dklynn]

w1nk5,

The Last flag simply tells Apache to execute the redirection and start over with mod_rewrite processing with the new {REQUEST_URI} string which will then should bypass the first two RewriteRule blocks and WP's greedy code will then redirect the non-file and non-directory requests to index.php. In other words, the Last flag has nothing to do with the end result of index.php because mod_rewrite will continue its processing until there are no redirections.

Regards,

DK