301 redirect
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What is a proper way to redirect any url containing a give word (anywhere in the url) to another sepcified url? Is it like this?
RedirectMatch 301 ^thisword$ http://domain.com/newlocation
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well done sha, i am afraid i got the wrong end of the stick, i thought he wanted to SELECT the url, not simply detect it.
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Glad you got it worked out
Don't forget if you need extra help on something you can always use the Private Message system in your profile to contact people direct.
Have a great weekend,
Sha
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Yes, Sha looked at it and got a bit lost at once. I am totally new to server side codes and it needed a little modification but i got it working in the end. Thanks a lot.
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Hi Zsolt,
Did you actually look at the link I gave you with the code that you needed?.
The answer is to stop trying to use Redirectmatch and use the code I gave you in that example:
RewriteEngine on RewriteBase /score RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} score= RewriteRule ^/*$ newlocation.html? [R=301,L]
This is the simplest, cleanest, and most reliable solution to your problem.
Sha
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Thanks for the help. Regretfully this is my very first time writing htaccess so lot of faults can occur. I posted another thread maybe someone knows better than I do. Thank you very much for your time.
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Well that will select your url, but what are you trying to do with it.
i have it working on IIS server using that regex, but i cant tell you how to use it in htaccess, as i dont use it
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nothing works. maybe I'll try posting another thread.
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Here this will select your whole url
[a-z,0-9,=&?/.]score[a-z,0-9,=&]
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[a-z,0-9,=,&]alan[a-z,0-9,=,&]
get the idea
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try [a-z,0-9]score[a-z,0-9]
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You are correct, give me a munite and ill get back to you
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Still not working for me. I tried further with:
RedirectMatch 301 [.]score[.] http://domain.com (I thought a-z stands just for letter and urls contain number and marks)
RedirectMatch 301 [.]score[.] http://domain.comneither works
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i work on microsoft servers, so i am not sure about the sytax of htaccess.
but the regex is the same.
please try these.
RedirectMatch 301 [a-z]score[a-z] http://domain.com
RedirectMatch 301 score http://domain.comyou missed the *
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still not working for me.
The exact url is domain.com/?score=4&rew=25 (there are some more versions of course with different counters)
I want to redirect all urls like this to domain.com
tried:
RedirectMatch 301 /[a-z]score[a-z] http://domain.com
RedirectMatch 301 /.score. http://domain.com
RedirectMatch 301 /^score$.* http://domain.com
RedirectMatch 301 /.^score$.* http://domain.comnone of them woks
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Did you try it, it works for me.
Just try simply thisword
it should match aaaathiswordaaaaa
this will work,
[a-z]thisword [a-z]
but so will
thisword
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Thanks, Alan. Not really like that, as my url contains additional characters both in the front and at the end of the word. By the way the links you sent me on the topic were great I am just having some hard time to understand them, they are a bit chinese to me, as I have no basics at all writing htaccess.
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Thank you a lot for your help, very much appriciated
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the ^ symbol means the begins with, the $ means ends with
so ^thisword$ means the URL must be a exact match "thisword"
try simply thisword
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Hi again,
We set up an example page for you with working tests and links to example code and zipped version.
Hope that is what you need,
Sha
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I think it should be something like
Redirectmatch 301 /.
*thisword.``* http://domain.com
Maybe but I am not sure, would be grateful for feedback
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You got it right
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I'm looking for a method to redirect any urls containing a certain variable. I have a scorable element on my site and each time a new score is added a new url is generated like domain.com/xyz?score=5 or domain.com/score=4&rew=22. These are all alternates of my main page abd I would like to redirect them there. In the end found something when clicking through from Jennifer's post but I'm still not quite sure.
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Hi Zsolt,
Just so we understand exactly what you are asking here ...
What you are wanting to do is permanently redirect any and all URLs containing "thisword" to a single URL on the same domain? Is that accurate?
Sha
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Ok, as I'd like to help, just looking at your exact question then:
Is it like this?
RedirectMatch 301 ^thisword$ http://domain.com/newlocation
My answer was:
**RedirectMatch 301 /folder/filename.php http://www.domain.com/newlocation** is probably what you're after anyway going by your example in your question. which seems to answer the question asked, just provided a lot more information to help further. If that's not what you're after, could you rephrase the question so that you can get the help you are after? Regards Simon ```
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Not exactly what I was looking for but thanks for the feedback anywy
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Hi Zsolt
You'll find a blog post here on SEOmoz really useful, entitled "URL Rewrites and 301 Redirects - How Does It All Work" by Jennifer Sable Lopez (SEOmoz Staff).
There is a section on the '301 Redirect process', you may also find the first section 'URL Rewrites' helpful.
There are some useful links within, depending on whether you're using Apache or IIS. The reason for the redirect and your technical environment will determine the most appropriate way.
RedirectMatch 301 /folder/filename.php http://www.domain.com/newlocation
is probably what you're after anyway going by your example in your question.
Also some really helpful information at http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection
Hope that helps,
Regards
Simon
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