Htaccess query
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I'm currently working on a live version of a clients website which has duplication issues. With .htaccess, I need to rewrite URL's of the following format:
vacancy.php?id=802 to vacancy/?id=802
I tried adding the following line but it returned a 500, and don't want to keep taking the site out.
RewriteRule ^vacancy/?id=([0-9]+)$ vacancy.php?id=$1 [R=301, L]
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Hi again Matt,
Actually, you don't need to be using the 301 at all. A simple rewrite will do what you are wanting.
If you do it like this:
RewriteRule ^vacancy/([0-9]+)$ vacancy.php?id=$1 [L]
your URLs would be a lot more friendly.
The resultant URLs would look like this:
/vacancy/12345
Hope that helps,
Sha
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Hi Matt,
The 500 Error is caused by the "space" in [R=301, L]
Should be [R=301,L]
Hope that helps,
Sha
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Hi,
please back up your .htaccess before attempting
Redirect match might work, but only if you are redirecting all to one - Keep in mind the initial directive needs to be changed to your specific scenario, as well as the destination URL
RedirectMatch 301 ^page.php?id=(.*).htm$ http://www.example.com/content/$1.html
Or you could do it one by one -
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=1$
RewriteRule ^page.php$ http://www.example.com/content/page? [R=301,L]Or here is a link to a resource (I HAVE NOT TESTED OR USED) but gets lots of good feedback, for helping you make easier work out of hundreds of dynamic redirects
http://www.mbstrategic.com/02/301-redirects-for-dynamic-urls-to-static-pages-with-htaccess/
Hope this helps
PS after a seconf look, your initial attempt might work, you just need a condition which would be similar to
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=1$
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Sorry, I should have been more clear. There are hundreds of vacancy ID's which change over time, so I need to use a rewrite rule to handle all cases now and in the future.
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Here's the format you may need to follow, I'm not 100% positive this will work for you but I know this is how 301s are setup:
redirect 301 vacancy.php?id=802 **yourdomain.com/path-to-location/**vacancy/?id=802
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