Redirect specific querystring in htaccess

[thomsson]

Hi,

Now i have this url structure:
domain.com/news?nid=458854-Lukaku-to-italy.html

In htaccess i now want to rewrite all /news?nid= to:
domain.com/news/458854-Lukaku-to-italy.html

How do i do that?

[John_Betong]

Hi @thomsson and a warm welcome to the forum.

I believe the htaccess redirection is commonly called “pretty URLs” and further details can be found here:

https://www.sitepoint.com/pretty-urls-pretty-easy/

[rpkamp]

Hi there @thomsson, welcome to the forums

What you want to use here is Apache’s RewriteEngine

Something like this:

Options -MultiViews +FollowSymlinks

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} nid=(.*?)($|&) [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?news /news/$1 [L,R=302]

Once that works (I haven’t tested it) you should replace 302 (temporary redirect) with 301 (permanent redirect).