Htaccess rewrites

[AndrewAkesson]

We’re using wordpress, and we have the following in the .htaccess:

BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

END WordPress

We have a URL like http://subdomain.example.com/select-a-card/?q=fuel, and I want to rewrite it so that it becomes http://subdomain.example.com/fuel-card/

What do I need to add to the htaccess to do this??

Thanks,

[AndrewAkesson]

I managed to strip out the '?q=' query with the htaccess below, but unfortunately this breaks the query. Any way around this?? (http://subdomain.example.com/select-a-card/?q=fuel)

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^q=fuel$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /fuel/? [R=301, L]

BEGIN WordPress

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

END WordPress

[Qon]

This should work:

RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/$ /select-a-card/?q=$1 [L]

This will redirect http://subdomain.example.com/select-a-card/?q=__anyname to http://subdomain.example.com/anyname__/. If you just want to 301 the one page, try this:

Redirect 301 /select-a-card/?q=fuel http://subdomain.example.com/fuel-card/

[AndrewAkesson]

Ok, so how about if I make the ask a bit easier...

Whilst not an ideal solution, it would be good if I could just rewrite

http://subdomain.example.com/select-a-card/?q=fuel

to

http://subdomain.example.com/select-a-card/fuel/

...or ideally with a trailing slash too: http://subdomain.example.com/select-a-card/fuel/

[blacey]

No it wont be conflicting with WordPress, just a matter of getting the syntax correct. I'll try and amend my initial solution later this evening and report back, thanks in advance for your patience.

[AndrewAkesson]

Hi Ben,

Thanks for replying. Unfortunately I've tried the above and it's not working.

I've tried escaping everything, but still no joy. Could this be clashing with wordpress permalink redirects perhaps?

[blacey]

Try this:

BEGIN WordPress

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /
  
  # Custom Rewrite Rules
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/select-a-card/$ [NC] RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^q=fuel$   RewriteRule ^index.php$ /fuel-card/? [R=301,NC,L]
  
  RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule . /index.php [L]</ifmodule>

END WordPress