pulling my hair on this .htaccess problem

Hello!

I have a problem I can't figure out.

I have this in my .htaccess and it is not working. If I go to the url I just get redirected to the 404 page.

ErrorDocument 404 /404.html
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule search\.php?title=888888 /updated/?a=search&n=0&category=title&q=88888

To me the above looks correct what do you think?

Thanks in advanced.

 

replace your above line by below and test again:

RewriteRule ^search\.php?title=888888$ /updated/?a=search&n=0&category=title&q=88888 [L]


of course you have to make sure you have the title

title=888888

existing else you get a correct 404

 

Thanks Hans but for some reason it didn't work =/

 

sri to hear that
here in DP forum >> may be PM nintendo
he is the true king of mod_rewrite stuff !!!

 

What do you get if you request /updated/?a=search&n=0&category=title&q=88888 ?

If that's a 404 then you will need to make that page work first.

 

Andy$$$

if you still search for a solution - it definitely would help a LOT to give at least the domain-URL of the site in question before asking more questions.
without knowing server details much of possible help is more guesswork/waste of time than efficient help

 

try this code

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /updated
ErrorDocument 404 /404.html
RewriteRule search\.php?title=888888 /?a=search&n=0&category=title&q=88888 [L]

or


RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
ErrorDocument 404 /404.html
RewriteRule search\.php?title=888888 /updated/?a=search&n=0&category=title&q=88888 [L]