Question

I have a couple of hits everyday from a now defunct tutorial I wrote. Rather than letting them sit on the 404, I have created a page with links to more up to date ones in the hope that someone else can help.

I am attempting to edit my htaccess to rediret

My site is WP powered and the incoming link is

/tutorials/?p=3

I would like it to go to:

/wiki/sorry-this-tutorial-no-longer-exists 

I have tried:

Redirect /tutorials/?p=3 http://domain.com/wiki/sorry-this-tutorial-no-longer-exists 

The closest I got was

RedirectMatch 301 ^/tutorials/?(.*)  http://domain.com/wiki/sorry-this-tutorial-no-longer-exists 

But that of course sticks the …exists/?p=3 on the end which doesn’t work

Any help with the bloody question mark? (I tried htaccess url rewrite with question mark but it would not work?)

Answer 1

I believe this should do what you are looking for

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/tutorials/$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^p=3
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/wiki/sorry-this-tutorial-no-longer-exists? [R=302,L]