Comments on: Setting Up 301 Redirects for Dynamic URLs

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:17:28 +0000

Thanks so much. I moved my site from an old .cfm site to wordpress. There were/are hundreds of .cfm redirects.

By: Alex Juel

Alex Juel — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:04:43 +0000

Hi extramsg, I’m not sure why it’s not working, but you should try removing RewriteEngine On from the dynamic redirect part. That only needs to be in the htaccess file once and needs to be before the redirects.

By: extramsg

extramsg — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:07:27 +0000

Hmm, I’ve been trying but nothing seems to work. Attempting to redirect the first of these to the second:

http://www.extramsg.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2
http://extramsg.com/?p=1

The code I used is:

RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^name=News&file=article&sid=2$
RewriteRule ^modules\.php$ http://extramsg.com/?p=1 [R=301,L]

Not sure if this code that comes before for the page to do google-friendly rewrites is affecting it:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

Very frustrating.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:18:10 +0000

Sounds good, thank you!

By: Alex Juel

Alex Juel — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:24:01 +0000

Hi Greg, Without fooling around with the htaccess file myself, it’s hard for me to give advice on those two examples. These are much more advanced redirect questions, that’s for sure. I can’t answer them myself, but I would definitely recommend you post your question at http://www.webmasterworld.com/apache/ . I’m sure jdMorgan will be able to figure it out.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:30:58 +0000

Please help,

I’m trying to figure out how to 301 redirect from

http://www.domain.com/?rated

http://www.domain.com/top

and also redirect second type of url from

http://www.domain.com/?s=free+files

http://www.domain.com/sh.php?q=free+files

Thanks in advance.

By: Shafiq

Shafiq — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:48:46 +0000

Hello Alex…
Useful post, but i cant around how to accomplish the following redirect:

From:
http://www.domain.co.uk/training-courses/?id=7

To:
http://www.domain.co.uk/electrical-training-courses/inspection-testing-electrical-installations-7

Can you help?

Thanks a lot

By: Eigil

Eigil — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:57:33 +0000

It´s not easy directing dynamic pages.
I´ve searched all over for the solution that worked for me!
You made it happen :-)

Thank you!

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:21:32 +0000

I would appreciate if someone could help me. I’m getting so confused. I’m not the best coder around.

I want to redirect
http://www.guldenophthalmics.com/ccp51/cgi-bin/cp-app.cgi?usr= (any dynamic page)

To: http://www.guldenophthalmics.com/ccp7/ecom-prodidx/COREseo.html

Thank you
Ron

By: Alex Juel

Alex Juel — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:27:00 +0000

Hey Rony,

This is similar to Jim’s question above. This should work. I’m not sure on how to do this for all dynamic url’s in one .htaccess code without repeating the process.

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=17641397$
RewriteRule ^/news/article$ http://www.caribbea.net/index.pl/article?id=17641397? [R=301,L]