Redirect

[petrakraft]

How do I redirect this url:

http://www.example.com/img/head/beauty-spa.jpg" width="114" height="50" alt="image"/></a> </div> <div class="c0 r"><a href="/m/imgres?q=short+holiday+treatments

Thank you for your help.

[petrakraft]

Hi Keri, you just pushed me to go forward with that problem. Yes, Mike's suggestion works perfect!

[petrakraft]

Hi Mike, sorry for my delayed answer (I have been on holiday in between an this means always busy time before and after... and this item was not the most important one. The problem with my mentioned redirect above has been that it worked, BUT the image itself (which is of course in use on the website) was not visible any more.

And your solution works perfect - I just tried it out. Thank you

[KeriMorgret]

Petra, did this work for you?

Keri [SEOmoz associate]

[scanlin]

So I think you are trying to redirect a query parameter request to your home page, right? So that this:

/m/imgres?q=short+holiday+treatments

is redirected to this:

/

Correct? If so, try this:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.)short+holiday+treatments(.)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /? [R=301,L]

[petrakraft]

Right .. sorry:

~img/head/beauty-spa.jpg%22%20width=%22114%22%20height=%2250%22%20alt=%22image%22/%3E%3C/a%3E%20%3C/div%3E%20%3Cdiv%20class=%22c0%20r%22%3E%3Ca%20href=%22/m/imgres?q=short+holiday+treatments~

I am looking for something like that:

RewriteRule ^img/head/beauty-spa.jpg(.)$ / [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^q=short+holiday+treatments$
RewriteRule (.) /? [R=301,L]

But it ain't work

[scanlin]

the sample code you posted comes through as a whole code fragment with unpaired tags. If you post it between curly braces it should show up better here. Are you looking for the syntax of the regular expression for your case, or something else?

[petrakraft]

Hi Mike - I know this already ;-).

I am asking for that special case.

But thank you for your time.

[scanlin]

Normally redirects are done in the .htaccess file of your site, using a RewriteRule. Something like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^old.html$ new.html

Google it and you'll find more examples.