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Htaccess redirect with question mark
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Hi I have a problem setting up my htaccess for a specific page that has a question mark in the link, and one that has a space in the link and also a question mark. So I would like 2 redirects in my htaccess like that:
www.olddomain.com/page.php?page=pagename1
to
www.newdomain.com/newpage1.html
www.olddomain.com/page.php?page=page name2
to
www.newdomain.com/newpage2.html
I have tried with something like this but doesn't work:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^page.php?page=pagename1 "http://www.newdomain.com/newpage1.html" [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^page.php?page=page name2 "http://www.newdomain.com/newpage2.html" [R=301,L]
Could someone tell me what exactly I have to change?
Thanks
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Hi kyle thanks for the answer, I have tried with this code:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=13$
RewriteRule ^/page.php$ http://www.example.com/newname.htm? [L,R=301]But it doesn't work. Is it possible that it requires page.php?id=13 to exist? I don't have anymore the file on the server... Trying to reach page.php?id=13 it responds with a 404 error.
Any solutions?
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Check out this page, about half way down in the article: http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles3/spiders-301-redirect.htm
They cover both dynamic query pages and pages with spaces.
Good luck - kyle
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