mod_rewrite URL from unique query string URL to unique static URL

Server Config
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The original problem:

Redirecting [FONT=“Courier New”][COLOR=“Red”]http://www.old-domain.com/news.php?id=232[/COLOR][/FONT] to [FONT=“Courier New”][COLOR=“DeepSkyBlue”]http://www.new-domain.com/blog/unique-post-title-here/[/COLOR][/FONT]

I initially solved this by:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} id=232$
RewriteRule (.*) /blog/unique-post-title-here/? [L,R=301]
</IfModule>

…and then making a new condition and rule for each blog post redirect.

The new problem:

The solution above will target any URI with an ?id=232 (or whatever number) query string. So [FONT=“Courier New”][COLOR=“Red”]http://www.old-domain.com/[COLOR=“Black”][B]news[/B][/COLOR].php?id=232[/COLOR][/FONT] and [FONT=“Courier New”][COLOR=“Red”]http://www.old-domain.com/[COLOR=“Black”][B]staff[/B][/COLOR].php?id=232[/COLOR][/FONT] will redirect to the same place when they are obviously different pages.

How would you add the logic to filter out the URIs with specific text behind the query string?

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By matching the URL in the RewriteRule :slight_smile:


RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} id=232$
RewriteRule ^news\\.php$ /blog/unique-post-title-here/? [L,R=301]

^ That one will only match on news.php, not on staff.php

BTW. Get rid of the <IfModule …> and </IfModule>. Once you’ve established that mod_rewrite works there is no need to ask the server again and again for every request – you already know the answer, why ask the question? :slight_smile:

3

Worked like a charm - cheers! :smiley: