Question

I’d like to rewrite
www.site.com/a/b/?param1=one&param2=two
in
www.site.com/c/d/e/?param1=one&param2=two.

Where http://www.site.com/a/b does not exists. I tried with

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymLinks    
RewriteRule ^a/b/(.*)$ www.site.com/c/d/e/$1 [QSA,L]

What’s wrong with it?

Answer 1

Try this one:

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteRule ^/a/b/(.*)$ /c/d/e/$1 [QSA,L]

There is no need for adding the incompleate domain. If you want that the users visit a second domain you have to add the R option and the protocol. For a redirect to a second domain try this:

RewriteRule ^/a/b/(.*)$ http://www.site.com/c/d/e/$1 [R,QSA,L]