Question

I am trying to redirect a page via my .htaccess, but it does not seem to be working.

Old page: /dyn/?q=customer%20reference&f=1,1,1,1,1,1&c=10,10,10,10,10,10&s=1,1,1,1,1,1,1&st=1

New page: /customer-references/

Thought it would be as simple as this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^q=customer(?:[\ +]|%20)reference&f=1$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^dyn/$ /1? [R=301,NE,NC,L]

But it does not seem to be working. Is it because the original page’s dynamic URL?

Additionally, I also tried a straight 301 Redirect in the .htaccess. That didn’t seem to work either:

redirect 301 /dyn/?q=customer%20reference&f=1,1,1,1,1,1&c=10,10,10,10,10,10&s=1,1,1,1,1,1,1&st=1 /customer-references/

And another failed attempt was this:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^customer%20reference&f=1,1,1,1,1,1&c=10,10,10,10,10,10&s=1,1,1,1,1,1,1&st=1$
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.domain.com/customer-references/? [R=301,L]

Then, I attempted variations on this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^q=customer%20reference* [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/customer-references/ [R=301,L]

Do I need to escape out the ampersands or the space (%20)?

Answer 1

Escaping of % and & is not necessary as they are not special characters.

The following works for me. Place in the .htaccess file in the root of your site.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

# match/dyn/?q=customer%20reference&f=[ANYTHING]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^q=customer%20reference&f= [NC]
RewriteRule ^dyn/$ /customer-references/? [L,R=301]