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How can I redirect somepage.php?location=125 to page.php?

I tried the following, but it didn't work:

Redirect 301 /somepage.php?location=125 http://www.domain.com/page.php

Please help! Thanks.

 

Use mod rewrite as follows :

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^somepage.php?location=(.*?) http://www.domain.com/page.php [L]

 

Hmm I tried that, but it says, "The requested URL /somepage.php was not found on this server." just like it was before.

Any ideas?

 

Have you tried this ?

<?php

header('Location: page.php');

?>

 

Thanks hackfanatic.. but that won't work in my case. I need to utilize htaccess features.

 

i think the "?" in the RewriteRule creates an issue.

Try This

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} location=(.*)
RewriteRule ^(.*)somepage.php$ page.php?q=%1 [L]

 

Thanks, that seems to be working.

However... I do have more than one location.. for example ( location=125 goes to page.php ) and location=126 would go to simple.php and so on.

Can I replace (.*) with the number or would that not work?

How would I do that correctly?

 

Yes,

That would work,

The final script would be like

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} location=125
RewriteRule ^(.*)somepage.php$ page1.php [L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} location=126
RewriteRule ^(.*)somepage.php$ page2.php [L]

 

Perfect, thanks. +rep added to all those who helped.

Also, can you check this thread? -- http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1161300