.htaccess redirectperminant not working

Hi,

I'm trying to redirect a bunch old urls to a newer and better url using RedirectPermanent, but for one subset its just not working!...

Rules such as

RedirectPermanent /contact.php http://lonewolf-online.net/contact/

Code (markup):

work exactly fine, however if they have a '?' in them it just refuses to work. I also tried RedirectMatch but still get a 404.

RedirectPermanent /doarticle.php?article=computer_howto_hpze5400 http://lonewolf-online.net/computers/tutorial/hp_pavilion_ze5400_dismantle/

Code (markup):

and

RedirectMatch ^/doarticle.php/\?article=computer_howto_hpze5400$ http://lonewolf-online.net/computers/tutorial/hp_pavilion_ze5400_dismantle/

Code (markup):

and some of the existing inbound links contain a forward slash before the ?:

RedirectPermanent /doarticle.php/?article=computer_howto_hpze5400 http://lonewolf-online.net/computers/tutorial/hp_pavilion_ze5400_dismantle/

Code (markup):

How do I get these to redirect?? I have about 2 dozen different article= urls. Its been driving me crazy.

Thanks

 

Try using mod_rewrite instead.

 

Thanks,

I tried using

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} doarticle.php/\?article=computer_howto_hpze5400 [NC,OR]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://lonewolf-online.net/computers/tutorial/hp_pavilion_ze5400_dismantle/ [R=301,L] 

Code (markup):

which redirects to

http://lonewolf-online.net/computers/tutorial/hp_pavilion_ze5400_dismantle/?article=computer_howto_hpze5400

Code (markup):

but how do I remove the ?article=computer_howto_hpze5400 from the URL? I am now getting a

Thanks

 

Hi,

I'm still having problems with this. I have been playing around with various combinations of the above as well as this:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^article=computer_howto_hpze5400
RewriteRule /* http://lonewolf-online.net/computers/tutorial/hp_pavilion_ze5400_dismantle/ [R,L]

Code (markup):

But either the rule does not pick up or it gets stuck in a infinite loop.

The value of article in the query string will never be the same as the new url. doarticle.php has not existed on the site for a few years and never will.

There must be a way of redirecting a url containing a query string...

Anybody able to help?

Thanks

lonewolf

 

If you just need to redirect to the new url then try this

 

The url has not changed. I removed doarticle.php in favour of a new cleaner structure. I don't need anything fancy or dynamic, just a google friendly redirect of
http://lonewolf-online.net/doarticle.php?article=computer_howto_hpze5400
to
http://lonewolf-online.net/computers/tutorial/hp_pavilion_ze5400_dismantle/

I have many more pages and articles that will be redirected in the same way. I was hoping just a simple RedirectPermanent (as first post) would suffice.

Thanks anyway,

lonewolf