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    Hello,

    I trying to set up special urls for promotional offers or major sections.

    Something like: http://www.somesite.com/fantastic
    that would redirect to some document : http://www.somesite.com/index.php?id=123

    I don’t want to use friendly urls. Just to set a few redirections.

    As I’m testing on localhost with xampplite, the urls are something like this:
    http://localhost/somesite/fantastic
    http://localhost/somesite/index.php?id=123

    I’m not much familiar with htaccess mod_rewrite module and the RewriteRule syntax (despite some knowledge of regular expressions) and have been unsuccessful with setting this. Is my Rewrite Rule too restricive for some reason ?

    Options +FollowSymlinks
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule
    
    (...)
    
    # Special offers or sections
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
    RewriteRule somesite/index.php?id=123$ somesite/fantastic$ [nc]
    


    I would like the same code to work on both sides: localhost and remote site. (I’m sure this is possible).

    Thanks for your help.