Help:how To Do The Redirect

Hello guys,

Will you please help me to solve this problem. How to create a mod rewrite for this problem.

i have the following url

locate.php?a=numbers; //combination of numbers 0-9

Code (markup):

Instead of that url, I made it search engine friendly,
the new url now is

location/numbers.html; //combination of numbers 0-9

Code (markup):

I then create a mod re-write

RewriteEngine  on
RewriteRule ^location/([0-9-]*).html$  locate.php?a=$1 [L,NC]

Code (markup):

The above mod rewrite work fine... but my problem is
When someone access directly the file
locate.php?a=numbers; //combination of numbers 0-9
How can I redirect someone else who open the locate.php to the search engine friendly url?

example locate.php?a=12 -> location/12.html

Thanks in advance

 

You can use if(parse_url($url, PHP_URL_QUERY)) which can be used to check whether there is query string in the url or not. If it wont work for you let me know, as its working for me fine

 

It will be something like this:

RewriteEngine  on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^locate.php?a=(.*)$ location/$1.html [R=301]
RewriteRule ^location/([0-9-]*).html$  locate.php?a=$1 [L,NC]

Code (markup):

 

Thanks for the reply, but how can I do it any example?

 

Thanks mate, but not working

 

Slight change... the trick is [R=301] for redirect

RewriteEngine  on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^locate.php?a=(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}location/$1.html [R=301]
RewriteRule ^location/([0-9-]*).html$  locate.php?a=$1 [L,NC]

Code (markup):

 

Have you tried this keeping this code on the top line of your php page?

if(isset($_GET['a']))
{
header("Location:location/".$_GET['a'].".html";
}

PHP:

 

still no success seems I miss something with this, I know this is almost near like wordpress mod

 

With this solution I keep getting the following browser error message seems infinite loop
The page isn't redirecting properly

 

Thanks for the help guys... I figured it out...

 

Reason you are getting an infinite loop here is that when you hit /locations/[0-9].html it actually renders it as locate.php?a=[0-9], so $_GET['a'] is always set, and ends up in an infinite loop to itself.