Question

I’m sure this has been asked before, but I have no idea what it would be called.

I have done a quick Google and search here on SO.

Perhaps it would be better asked, how do I redirect http://site.com/shop to a specified URL like http://othersite.com/page without it affecting http://site.com/shop/?q=test or any other $_GET’s.

RewriteRule ^shop http://othersite.com/page [R=301,L]

Works fine apart from it also affects links like http://site.com/shop/?q=test which I want to work.

Cheers.

Answer 1

You can use mod_rewrite to match against the query string (or to see if there is no query string):

RewriteEngine On
# blank query string
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
# check host
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} site\.com$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^shop/?$ http://othersite.com/page [R=301,L]