Question

I’ve got a problem with redirecting some page(s). My rewrite rule looks like that (example):

RewriteRule /index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47:article-keyword&catid=8:position$ article-keyword.html [R=301,L]

But it’s not working, i was trying some different combinations but it still doing nothing.
Any solution?

Answer 1

Update: The RewriteRule below is incorrect. See update for 7/9/2012 for more details

I have read that RewriteRules are always relative, therefore try:

RewriteRule ^index\.php\?option=com_content&view=article&id=47:article-keyword&catid=8:position$ article-keyword.html [R=301,L]`

This should redirect /index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47:article-keyword&catid=8:position to article-keyword.html

The ^ designates the beginning of the string. Please take a look at http://www.noupe.com/php/10-mod_rewrite-rules-you-should-know.html for more information on Apache’s RewriteRule.

Update – 2012-07-08

Ok, after reading the Apache documentation, the RewriteRule DOES NOT match on the query string. To match on data within the query string you need to use a RewriteCond and the %QUERY_STRING variable.

Success! The following worked for me!

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} option=com_content&view=article&id=47:article-keyword&catid=8:position
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ article-keyword.html? [R=301,L]

This redirected http://site.domain.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47:article-keyword&catid=8:position to http://site.domain.com/article-keyword.html

This only redirects requests to index.php that have the query string in question.