I need Help Please, not redirecting properly!

Hi, I wanted to rewrite one of my url, from:

mysite.com/results.php?category=12

to

mysite.com/chulucanas-pottery

which I did successfully with the following code :

RewriteRule ^chulucanas-pottery$ results.php?category=12

but now I want to redirect all trafic that goes to

mysite.com/results.php?category=12

to go to

mysite.com/chulucanas-potttery

how can I do this , I try :

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} category=12
RewriteRule ^results\.php$ chulucanas-pottery? [R=301,L]



but it did not work, any suggestions?

Thanks

 

Something like this should work fine.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^category=12$
RewriteRule ^results\.php$ chulucanas-pottery [R=301,L]

 

When you say "it doesn't work" what actually happens ?

Does it just display the page without redirecting ?
Does it redirect in an infinite loop ?
Does it display a 500 error ?

 

Have you checked into the idea of setting up a rewrite log to see what's happening?

RewriteLogLevel 3
RewriteLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/yourdomain.com-rewrite

I've not tried it but I believe you change change the rewrite log level up to 9 for full information.

 

Well first, thanks for the replies. I tried what morten suggested, but with a little variation at the end of the third line right before "[R=301,L]" (the question mark), as follows :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^category=12$
RewriteRule ^results\.php$ chulucanas-pottery? [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^chulucanas-pottery$ results.php?category=12

with this code it rewrites the url and also redirects it but the page does not load it says:

The page isn't redirecting properly

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

any thoughts

Thanks