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Asked: 2026-05-31T14:29:42+00:00

I am having some difficulty redirecting links. Here is a simple example and I

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I am having some difficulty redirecting links. Here is a simple example and I hope you can tell me what I am missing that is causing it to fail.

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} NAV=PIXIES
RewriteRule ^/category.asp?NAV=PIXIES /category/pop-artpixies-trade- [R=301,L,NE]

Please let me know what further information I can provide.

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  1. Editorial Team

    the query string isn’t included in the URI for matching in the RewriteRule directive:

    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} NAV=PIXIES
RewriteRule ^/category.asp$ /category/pop-artpixies-trade- [R=301,L,NE]

    If this is inside an .htaccess file, you need to remove the leading slash in your regexp match:

    RewriteRule ^category.asp$ /category/pop-artpixies-trade- [R=301,L,NE]

    If you want to actually remove the NAV=PIXIES from the query string (because the above rule will rewrite http://domain/category.asp?NAV=PIXIES to http://domain/category/pop-artpixies-trade-?NAV=PIXIES ) then you need to add a “?” to the end of your target:

    RewriteRule ^category.asp$ /category/pop-artpixies-trade-? [R=301,L,NE]
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