How to redirect urls with a keyword to the site root

[patrmich]

Hi,

I have re-built all my web site

The old site was built with frames.
Therefore numbers of urls are indexed by search engines in the following shape : http://www.mysite.com/index.html?target=page_xxx.html
So every of this url group has the keyword "target" inside

There is no frame in the new site
I am searching a way to write a redirection (in the htaccess file) from all the above urls to the site root : http://www.mysite.com

I thank you in advance for any help in this matter.

Best Regards,

Patrick

[poyzn]

put into your .htaccess something like this:

PHP Code:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+).html$ /index.html?target=$1 [L,R=301] 


and try to access mysite.com/page_xxx.html

[patrmich]

Hi,

Thank you poyzn for your reply.

I tried to add the 3 given lines to my htaccess file :
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.html$ /index.html?target=$1 [L,R=301]


Then, I tried to open the here below url :
http://www.mysite.com/index.html?target=page_xxx.html


a- I got an error message in Google Chrome (in private navigation) :
"cette page présente une boucle de redirection" (this page has a redirect loop)
or
b- I got an error message in Firefox :
"La page n'est pas redirigée correctement" (The page is not properly redirected)

The displayed url in the browser bar was :
http://www.mysite.com/index.html?target=index

As a piece of information, I add that my new site root is :
http://www.mysite.com/index.php (or http://www.mysite.com)
and not
http://www.mysite.com/index.html

I thank you in advance if you can try to help me once again.

Kind Regards,

Patrick

[poyzn]

I assume that you don't have index.html
What language do you use on your server?

If it is php I suggest you to use index.php instead of index.html and mod_rewrite config should be:

PHP Code:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f // If there is no file with such name
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d // or directory
RewriteRule ^(.+).html$ /index.php?target=$1 [L,R=301] // do rewrite with 301 redirect to remove old urls from search engines indexes