Question

I just did a redesign for www.wildchildclothes.com which has a new URL structure. The old site ran on Zen Cart and had a bad URL structure. Here are some examples of what I want to redirect from:

OLD: www.wildchildclothes.com/page.html?chapter=1&id=21 NEW: www.wildchildclothes.com

and...

OLD: www.wildchildclothes.com/index.php?main_page=faq_info&fcPath=0&faqs_id=13 NEW: www.wildchildclothes.com/customer-service.html

Here is what s in my .htaccess to achieve this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase / 
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^([^&]*&)*chapter=1(&|$)
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^([^&]*&)*id=21(&|$)
RewriteRule ^page.html http://www.wildchildclothes.com? [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^([^&]*&)*main_page=faq_info(&|$)
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^([^&]*&)*fcPath=0(&|$)
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^([^&]*&)*faqs_id=13(&|$)
RewriteRule ^index.php$ http://www.wildchildclothes.com/customer-service.html? [L,R=301]

But this doesn t work at all - I only get sent to my 404 page instead of begin redirected. Can anyone shed some light? The full .htaccess is posted below.

Thanks much, Jonah

Answer 1

None of the above solutions worked for me, but this does:

To redirect www.wildchildclothes.com/page.html?chapter=1&id=21 to www.wildchildclothes.com:

RewriteCond %{query_string} chapter=1&id=21
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.wildchildclothes.com/? [R=301,L]

To redirect www.wildchildclothes.com/index.php?main_page=document_product_info&products_id=280 to www.wildchildclothes.com:

RewriteCond %{query_string} main_page=document_product_info&products_id=280
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.wildchildclothes.com/? [R=301,L]

To redirect www.wildchildclothes.com/index.php?main_page=faq_info&fcPath=0&faqs_id=9 to www.wildchildclothes.com/customer-service.html:

RewriteCond %{query_string} main_page=faq_info&fcPath=0&faqs_id=9
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.wildchildclothes.com/customer-service.html? [R=301,L]

I m sure there are better ways to do this but this works for me and .htaccess just gives me a headache so I m not digging any further.

I hope this helps someone else out there!

Jonah

Answer 2

It would be easier and far better if you use PHP for the redirect. You could, for example, rewrite such requests to a PHP script that analyzes the URL arguments and redirects to the correct page. Maybe something like this:

// old-to-new.php
$rules = array(
    array(
        array( chapter  =>  0 ,  id  =>  23 ),  // old URL parameters
         /customer-service.html                 // new URL
    ),
    // …
);
foreach ($rules as $rule) {
    if (array_intersect_assoc($rule[0], $_GET) == $rule[0]) {
        header( Location: http://example.com .$rule[1], true, 301);
        exit;
    }
}
header($_SERVER[ SERVER_PROTOCOL ].  404 Not Found , true, 404);
exit;

And the corresponding RewriteRule:

RewriteRule ^page.html$ old-to-new.php [L]

Answer 3

You want to allow more than one character in the query parameters. Change [^&]& to [^&]*&:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^([^&]*&)*chapter=1(&|$)
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^([^&]*&)*id=21(&|$)
RewriteRule ^page.html$ http://www.wildchildclothes.com? [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^([^&]*&)*main_page=faq_info(&|$)
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^([^&]*&)*fcPath=0(&|$)
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^([^&]*&)*faqs_id=12(&|$)
RewriteRule ^index.php$ http://www.wildchildclothes.com? [L,R=301]

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