Question

I have moved site from one framework to another and now I would like to redirect important pages (around 20). How to redirect them using apache rewrite? Here are examples:

Old: http://mydomain.com/ba/stream.php?kat=15
New: http://www.mydomain.com/bs/about-us/our-partners

Old: http://mydomain.com/ba/stream.php?kat=29
New: http://www.mydomain.com/bs/catalogues/it-catalogue

Also, after important pages are listed, I’d like to redirect all remaining links in form:

http://mydomain.com/ba/whatever-is-here

to

http://www.mydomain.com/bs/

Following TerryE’s suggestion, I’ll attach my latest code which is not working 🙂

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^kat=15$
RewriteRule ^stream\.php$ http://www.mydomain.com/bs/about-us/our-partners [R=301,L]

One more note: I use this code to redirect root domain to www subdomain:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

I have placed this root to www code below code for specific pages redirection, and when I test http://mydomain.com/ba/stream.php?kat=15 in browser, I am redirected to http://www.mydomain.com/bs/ba/stream.php?kat=15

Answer 1

Adnan,

You need to add the following lines to your DOCROOT/.htaccess. This assumes that you don’t have any .htaccess file in your ba subdirectory. (See Tips for debugging .htaccess rewrite for an explanation of why.)

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase   /
#
# Redirect kat 15 to the Partners page 
#
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}   ^kat=15$
RewriteRule ^ba/stream\.php$  http://www.mydomain.com/bs/about-us/our-partners? [R=301,L]
#
# Redirect all other kat ids to the corresponding bs page 
#
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}   ^kat=(\d+)$
RewriteRule ^ba/stream\.php$  http://www.mydomain.com/bs/%1? [R=301,L]

Note:

• the rule matches against the UPI less the leading path (in this case /)
• you need to have the trailing ? on the replacement string to suppress the existing query parameters.
• the %n parameters pick up the match variables from the last successful condition match.