Question

I would like to use Apache RewriteRule to change the URL target page to abc.php. I have set RewriteEngine On but I found this problem.

Regexp I used:

RewriteRule ^viewthread\.php.tid=12345$ abc.php

The URL string to match:

viewthread.php?tid=12345

Why it is not successfully matched?

Answer 1

Rewriting URLs with query strings is slightly more complicated than rewriting plain URLs. You’ll have to write something like this:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/viewthread\.php$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^tid=12345$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mydomain.site/abc.php [R=302,L]

See those articles for more help:

• http://www.simonecarletti.com/blog/2009/01/apache-query-string-redirects/
• http://www.simonecarletti.com/blog/2009/01/apache-rewriterule-and-query-string/