Need help with mod_rewrite

Anyone willing to spoonfeed me a redirect I need? Mod_rewrite is just to complex to easily figure it out for a one-time rewrite .

I've taken over mozdex.com, which provides free open source search feeds. There's a bunch of people using the feed on an old URL or two. I need to redirect their search traffic over to the current api so that their websites aren't all broken (no way of contacting these people to ask them to move, so I need to do it for them).

There are two URL's that are being used, difference of only a slash:

ww.domain.com/opensearch/?querystring
www.domain.com/opensearch?querystring

I need to permanently move these two strings to:
www.domain.com/open.jsp?querystring

Help?

 

domain.com/.htaccess

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^opensearch/?([^.]+)$ http://www.domain.com/open.jsp?$1 [R=301,L]

 

Thank you *very* much, I really appreciate that. It didn't quite work, but I think it's close enough that I can figure it out.

 

Hi guys, im kinda new to SEO and mod_rewrite and i need help with my apache server in my computer, i've uncommented the ff:

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so and
AddModule mod_rewrite.c

then i wrote this on the .htaccess file:

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.shtml$ index.php [L]

i have the index.php file in http://localhost/samples/ directory

but once i open http://localhost/samples/index.shtml , the browser displays a 404 Not Found Error.

Am i missing something here? Thanks in advance =)

 

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^samples/index.shtml$ samples/index.php [L]

if it's at domain.com/.htaccess

And change

http://localhost

to an actual URL!

 

It's working fine now nintendo thanks, how do i change http://localhost to an actual URL?

 

You upload the page on to the internet. Then it's more like

http://www.domain.com/

 

oh i see =)

i asked you how to change the http://localhost to http://www.domain.com because i thought there was a way to reconfigure apache settings so that it would display http://www.domain.com without being online hehehe.

well anyway, everything seem well as of the moment. Thanks a lot Nintendo. =)

 

Was using the sample on this post to attempt t solve a rewrite issue but it's throwing an Internal Server Errror. What we need to do is take something like:

...domain.com/query1/query2/web-page.html?12345
(or, ?id=12345 even)

and have it go to:

...domain.com/index.php?a=query1&b=query2&id=12345

Here's the .htaccess snippet for the rewrite rule that throws the error:
RewriteRule ^action/([0-9a-z/-]+.html?([^.]+) /index.php?a=display&b=$1&id=$2 [R=301,L]

There could be different numbers of /a/b/c depth too, and ends in ?12345 or ?id=12345

 

Get rid of the ? in the final URL, and to make it look more like a normaL URL, move the number before .html.