External 301 redirect when folder doesn't exist

[zorro20]

Thanks!

Apart from changing ‘The Request’ and adding the = sign what else do I need to do?

[dklynn]

@zorro20

I have the following in my htacces file

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[1]+\ /(accommodation\.php)?\?id=([0-9]+)(#[^\ ]*)?\ HTTP/

Horrors! {THE_REQUEST} is a major PITA to work with (and it has no conceivable advantage over {REQUEST_URI} or {REQUEST_FILENAME}).

RewriteRule ^(accommodation\.php)?$ http://www.example.com/%2? [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)$ accommodation.php?id=$1 [L]

The above works fine and produced the desired result (using id 89 as example):
http://www.example.com/89 instead of the old result http://www.example.com/accommodation.php?id=89
and broswers redirct work fine too!

What we are trying to do, rather than just have the url say: http://www.example.com/89 is to insert the type of property it actually is into the url something like: http://www.example.com/Apartment/89

NEW REWRITE RULE:
The new rewrite rule has been changed to:
RewriteRule ^([A-Z][a-z]+)/([0-9]+)$ accommodation.php?accommodation_type=$1&id=$2 [L]

Note the missing = I inserted above.

Using the ‘accommodation type’ from the ‘accommodation_type’ field in the database.
The new rewrite rule above works fine for internal links within the site returning: http://www.example.com/Apartment/89
or
http://www.example.com/House/89
or
whatever the accommodation_type is in the database.

The php code is like this…<a href=‘“.$row[accommodation_type].”/“.$row[“id”].”’> for links within the site.

But I can not get the external 301 redirect part - this…

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[2]+\ /(accommodation\.php)?\?id=([0-9]+)(#[^\ ]*)?\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(accommodation\.php)?$ http://www.example.com/%2? [R=301,L]

That’s completely different than the accommodation_type that you’re trying to add.

…to work!

It seem as though something needs to be added between example.com/HERE! AND/%2?
Is it seeing the ‘accommodation_type’ as a folder that doesn’t exist.

Thanks!

Regards,

DK

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