htaccess redirects for URLs with arguments

Question about 301 redirect / modrewrite

I know there are a lot of topics on this subject but so far I have not managed to create my needed redirect.


here is my current URL : mysite.net/doc.php?title=john

needs to redirect to : mysite.net/doc.php?renamed=john&id=3340

so am adding 'id' and renaming the variable 'title'.

does anyone know if this can actually be done ?

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Originally Posted by alankeys

Question about 301 redirect / modrewrite

I know there are a lot of topics on this subject but so far I have not managed to create my needed redirect.


here is my current URL : mysite.net/doc.php?title=john

needs to redirect to : mysite.net/doc.php?renamed=john&id=3340

so am adding 'id' and renaming the variable 'title'.

does anyone know if this can actually be done ?

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Would appreciate any comments or advice on above... Thanks.

Would appreciate any comments or advice on above... Thanks.

Assuming you tried:

Code:

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Redirect 301 /doc.php?title=john http://mysite.net/doc.php?renamed=john&id=3340

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?

Thanks John.

URL Parameters are not allowed at all in 301 redirects to the best of my knowledge.

The following has been suggested but I still cant make it work...

PHP Code:

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RewriteEngine on 
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^([^&]*&)*title=([^&]+)
RewriteRule ^/stock-charts/doc.php$ http://www.mysite.co.uk/stock-charts/doc.php      [this part is unclear]    [L,R=301] 


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Its as close as I have got...

Have you tried this online tool?

http://www.htaccessredirect.net/redirect-file-directory

Perhaps a PHP redirect would be more applicable. Does your host support PHP?

thnks for comments
xtyx it doesnt work for URLs with parameters.
jscheuer1 Have you any idea what the code would be ??

This appears to work, it would have to be the first thing on doc.php:

PHP Code:

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<?php
if(isset($_GET['title']) && $_GET['title'] === 'john'){
    header('Location: ./doc.php?renamed=john&id=3340');
    exit;
}
?>

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Or:

PHP Code:

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<?php
if(isset($_GET['title']) && $_GET['title'] === 'john'){
    header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); 
    header('Location: ./doc.php?renamed=john&id=3340');
    exit;
}
?>

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Depending upon the exact reason you're doing this, you might want to be more specific, like eliminating the possibility of all other post and get values, and/or be more general by redirecting all title to renamed, and possibly having a lookup for what each name would have as id.

John

Im going to look at these but 'id' is also to be fetched from the database. Im imagining that the code needs to also fetch 'id' that is related to 'title'.
also would like to contain these in a separate file that resides with the applicable directory/.