Question

How would you redirect (301?)?:

test.com/?dep=CAR (the variable is dynamic, whatever comes after the=)

to a subdirectory:

test.com/CAR/

This is what I’ve got so far:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^dep=(.*)
RewriteRule ^.* / [L,R=301]

I test this on a localhost (WAMP).
And the main directory is localhost/newsite/
(localhost/newsite/?dep=CAR)
, but I guess that shouldn’t matter? Online or localhost.

Answer 1

Try the following

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

#if it has a dep param, capture the value
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&)dep=([^&]+) [NC]
#and redirect to /value/
RewriteRule .* /%2/? [L,R=301]


#if there is no dep param
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !dep= [NC]
#and capture the directory and pass as a dep param
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]+)/$ ?dep=$1 [L]