Mod Rewrite - Just can't get it right

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Hi

I have spend the last couple of days scouring the internet but I can’t figure out how to do this.

Basically I need the page…

www.domain.com/page1/12345678

to redirect to

www.domain.com/page2/page1/12345678

I thought I might be able to do it with mod_alias but I end up in an infinite loop.

What I have so far is

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*&)/page1/([0-9]+)?$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/page1/([0-9]+)?$ /page2/page1/$2 [R=301,L]

but I’m just not hitting the rule.

I have spend hours on this and I just can’t work out what I am doing wrong.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks

Si

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mod_alias should be able to do that just fine. Try this:


Redirect permanent /page1/12345678 http://www.example.com/page2/page1/12345678

(where of course [noparse]www.example.com[/noparse] has to replaced with your real domain)

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Sorry, I wasn’t very clear.

The last part, 12345678, is dynamic.

What I tried with mod_alias was

RedirectMatch ^/page1/([0-9]+) http://www.example.co.uk/page2/page1/$1

This works where redirecting from 1 domain to a seperate domain, but when using the same domain it seems to cause a loop.

I tried your suggestion but it won’t let me use any expressions in this.

Thanks

Si

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S&M,

Rémon’s suggestion is a good one - for fixed content. However, with 12345678 being dynamic, leave it off the end of the “from” and “to” code as mod_alias will redirect the directories and leave the “file” request alone.

I believe that’s the reason that your RewriteMatch isn’t working - although it should work properly.

As for your mod_rewrite code:

[COLOR="Red"]RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*&)/page1/([0-9]+)?$ [NC][/COLOR]
# Are you trying to redirect FROM the query string version to the non-servable version?
# If so, have a read of the "Loopy" section of my tutorial Article
RewriteRule ^/[COLOR="Blue"]?[/COLOR]page1/([0-9]+)?$ /page2/page1/$2 [R=301,L]

I’m bothered by the fact that you’re not telling us what you’re REALLY trying to do, i.e., SPECIFICITY! With digits in the place of a file, what are you serving? Quite obviously, you’re not giving us the whole picture so we really can’t be of much help (except on troublesome points).

Regards,

DK

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Hi

Apologies for being a bit vague.

Basically we are releasing a new website. The developers in their wisdom have decided to change the URL structure.

So what I am trying to do is preserve any inbound links once the website is changed over.

As for the digits in place of a file, the site is built on a framework, and those numbers are stock IDs. They are not actual files.

Had a bit more of a play about, and I seem to have got it working by using your mod_alias suggestion.

Thanks a lot for your help guys.

Si