.htaccess 301 Redirect Issue

Hey guys,

I am a .htaccess newbie having a problem with a 301 redirect. I am trying to do a 301 redirect that has a PHP variable, but the redirect is not clean and causing some seo google problems.

I am trying to redirect the following:

From:

http://www.example.com/dog/cat/index.php?pid=13

To:

http://www.example.com




I have been using this redirect:

RedirectMatch 301 /dog/cat/ http://www.example.com

That redirectmatch is producing the following result which is not clean and problematic:

http://www.example.com/?pid=index.php



Any ideas how to fix this?

Thanks

Jason

 

Two possible solutions for you:

Use RedirectMatch's capture group feature:

RedirectMatch /dog/cat/index\.php\?pid=(\d+)$ http://www.example.com/?pid=$1

Code (markup):

Use PHP to perform the redirect:

<?PHP
if ((int) $_GET['pid'] == 13)
{
die(header("Location: http://www.example.com/", 301));
}
?>

PHP:

 

Thanks Zach! That helped!

 

Thanks for the helpful information zach. Really appreciate your efforts.