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Asked: 2026-05-20T21:30:44+00:00

I’m working in an old CMS that uses htaccess to rewrite URIs with GET

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I’m working in an old CMS that uses htaccess to rewrite URIs with GET variables into something more user friendly.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^animals/(.*)/ secondary.php?page=$1
RewriteRule ^animals/(.*) secondary.php?page=$1

which results (correctly) in

http://www.example.com/animals/duck

The problem is I now need to redirect some of those pages to new pages. I’ve tried: 

Redirect 301 /animals/goose http://www.example.com/animals/fowl

The redirect almost works, but it adds “?page=goose” to the end of the rewritten URI:

http://www.example.com/animals/fowl?page=goose

I’ve tried using RewriteRule as well as RewriteCond, but unfortunatley I’m having no luck. Any help would be immensely appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try placing this before the other rules instead of the Redirect statement. R=301 is for the redirect and L signals that the rule in question is the last rule to be processed.

    RewriteRule ^animals/goose /animals/fowl [R=301,L]

    Also you can easily make the slash (just like any other character) optional with a question mark, instead of having two rules.

    RewriteRule ^animals/(.*)/?$ secondary.php?page=$1
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