301 Redirect problem

lukep11a · 03-04-2012, 08:14 PM

Hi, I had a page, team-info.php?team_id=48 for example and some of these pages have been indexed by google, I then decided to move team-info.php into a folder named team and use my .htaccess file to rewrite the links to team/48 meaning some of the results in google now link to an error page. I have tried to direct the old links to the new links but it doesn't seem to be working, here's my code:

Rewrite rule that currently works to point dynamic link to a clean URL:

RewriteRule ^team/([0-9]+)$ team/team-info.php?team_id=$1

Rewrite rule to move the old dynamic link to the new one, that is not currently working:

RewriteRule ^team-info.php?team_id=([0-9]+)$ team/$1 [R=301,L]

If anyone can help me on this then I would be very grateful, i've been trying different solutions out for a while now and not getting anywhere, thanks.

leslie.jones · 03-05-2012, 06:27 AM

I think you issue is you can't match the question mark, instead you have to have a condition to match the querystring.

I've not tested this heavily, but play with this:

Code:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/team-info.php$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^team_id=([0-9]+)$ 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.tld/team/$1 [R=301,L]

It may need some refinement, but it should get you close to where you are trying to go!