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RedirectMatch on URL ?

Hi,

...can anyone give me the correct code to make a re-direct of a URL as in the following WRONG example

Redirect permanent /do/category/Fishing?&firstRow=10 http://www.mySite.co.uk/do/category/Fishing/10

..its obvious what I want to achieve but this attemp does not actually work. I think I need a more complicate ReDirectMatch

Regards

SMc

ravenpl

You need rewrite not redirect. Redirect can't operate on query strings (the part after ? sign)
Assuming .htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} firstRow=([0-9]+)
RewriteRule ^do/category/Fishing.* /do/category/Fishing/%{1} [L]

ls21gce

ASKER

Hi,

The above example didnt actually work for me. I am entering this directly into the httpd-vhosts.conf.

I have the cobbled together the following example that nearly works, but does not add the 'nn' on the end....

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} firstRow=([^&]+)
RewriteRule ^/(do/category/.*) http://www.mysite.co.uk/$1? [R=301,L]

this correctly redirects:-
http://www.mysite.co.uk/do/category/anyCategory?&firstRow=10
to
http://www.mysite.co.uk/do/category/anyCategory

BUT I actually want it to redirect keeping just the end number....e.g.
http://www.mysite.co.uk/do/category/anyCategory/10

Regards,

SMc

ls21gce

ASKER

Hi,

Ok, forget it,

If I modify the version I mentioned in my last post (see below) to

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} firstRow=([^&]+)
RewriteRule ^/(do/category/.*) http://www.mysite.co.uk/$1/%1? [R=301,L]

This does exactly the correct job...

Regards,

SMc

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ravenpl

Of course - there should be %1 instead of ${1}

ravenpl

Of course - there should be %1 instead of %{1}

ls21gce

ASKER

many thanks for your help ravenpl...

SMc