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Answered Trying to redirect /page.php?p=home with htaccess

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    fourroses666 Reply #1, 12 years, 5 months ago
    I'm building a new website and would like to keep the SEO results by redirecting the old URLs to the new pages.

    When I add this in my htaccess:
    Redirect 301 /page.php?p=home&l=nl http://www.my-site.nl/

    Then navigate to: http://www.my-site.nl/page.php?p=home&l=nl (which doesn't exists) I should be redirected to the homepage but I see the 404 page / page not found I have set in the manager.


    My full htaccess file:
    AddDefaultCharset utf-8

Redirect 301 /page.php?p=home&l=nl http://www.sub.mysite.nl/
Redirect 301 /page.php?p=bedrijf&l=nl http://www.sub.mysite.nl/bedrijf
Redirect 301 /page.php?p=activiteiten&l=nl http://www.sub.mysite.nl/activiteiten
Redirect 301 /page.php?p=contact&l=nl http://www.sub.mysite.nl/contact
Redirect 301 /page.php?p=vacatures&l=nl http://www.sub.mysite.nl/vacatures
... some more...

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*internal\ dummy\ connection.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

# Rewrite domain.com -> www.domain.com -- used with SEO Strict URLs plugin
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (.+)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%1/$1 [R=permanent,L] . 


RewriteRule ^(manager|assets)/.*$ - [L]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico)$ - [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]



    This doesn't work either:
    RewriteRule ^page.php?p=bedrijf&l=nl http://www.sub.mysite.nl/bedrijf [L,NE,R=301]



    This question has been answered by fourroses666. See the first response.

    [ed. note: fourroses666 last edited this post 12 years, 5 months ago.]
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      fourroses666 Reply #2, 12 years, 5 months ago
      Seems it has to do with the ?p=home&l=nl

      This works:
      Redirect 301 /page.php http://www.sub.mysite.nl/

      This doesn't:
      Redirect 301 /page.php?blabla http://www.sub.mysite.nl/

      Any workarround possible someone knows of?
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        fourroses666 Reply #3, 12 years, 5 months ago
        The solution:

        RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^p=home&l=nl$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^page\.php$ http://www.sub.mysite.nl/home? [R=301,NE,NC,L]


        Now when I go to mysite.nl/page.php?p=home&l=nl I get redirected to mysite.nl/home
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