Mod-rewrite question

Hi,

A.t.m. I’m struggling with mod_rewrite, i don’t think the solution will be hard but i just can’t get it right. Here’s my question:

I want to 301 redirect all URL’s containing "abc/nl/" to "/nl/" and i want to append the rest of the URL afer "nl/", to the new URL.

So http://www.test.nl/abc/nl/widgets?a=9&b=100 should become http://www.test.nl/nl/widgets?a=9&b=100 .

For this I constructed the following RegEx:
RewriteRule abc/nl/(.*)\?(.*) /nl/$1?$2 [R=301,L]

I tested the regex with this regex tester, http://www.quanetic.com/regex.php

Fill in as regex -> abc/nl/(.*)\\?(.*) --(i used \\ in this example because the test script strips slashes, \\ should of course be \ in reality)
Fill in as haystack-> http://www.test.nl/abc/nl/widgets?a=9&b=100

There should be a positive match with 2 groupings "widgets" and "a=9&b=100"

The problem is that Modrewrite does not execute this rule: RewriteRule abc/nl/(.*)\?(.*) /nl/$1?$2 [R=301,L]
I think it can’t match it on the URL(same URL as used in example).

I don’t understand what is wrong with this rule, as it checks out fine in the RegEx tester.

Can anybody say what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks for your time if you are reading this.

One observation and one question --

- Your rewrite rule takes "abc/nl/" and rewrites it to "/nl", so you’re going to have an extra leading slash in there.

- If you turn on mod_rewrite debugging, what do the logs show as far matching those URLs? Since when you say "it’s not working", it’s not clear whether it’s not matching or not redirecting

Try doing something like this and see if it helps:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*/abc/nl/(.*\?.*)$
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /nl/%1? [R=301,L]