Htaccess rewrites
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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,
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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
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This should work:
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/$ /select-a-card/?q=$1 [L]
This will redirect http://subdomain.example.com/select-a-card/?q=__anyname to http://subdomain.example.com/anyname__/. If you just want to 301 the one page, try this:
Redirect 301 /select-a-card/?q=fuel http://subdomain.example.com/fuel-card/
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Ok, so how about if I make the ask a bit easier...
Whilst not an ideal solution, it would be good if I could just rewrite
http://subdomain.example.com/select-a-card/?q=fuel
to
http://subdomain.example.com/select-a-card/fuel/
...or ideally with a trailing slash too: http://subdomain.example.com/select-a-card/fuel/
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No it wont be conflicting with WordPress, just a matter of getting the syntax correct. I'll try and amend my initial solution later this evening and report back, thanks in advance for your patience.
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Hi Ben,
Thanks for replying. Unfortunately I've tried the above and it's not working.
I've tried escaping everything, but still no joy. Could this be clashing with wordpress permalink redirects perhaps?
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Try this:
BEGIN WordPress
<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# Custom Rewrite Rules
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/select-a-card/$ [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
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