Redirecting dynamic urls to static ones w/htaccess

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April 16th, 2008, 05:07 PM

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general - Redirecting dynamic urls to static ones w/htaccess

Hi there,

I've been searching quite a bit for a solution, but thus far, none of them have worked properly.

I can redirect static urls to static urls just fine, but when I try and redirect an old dynamic url to a static one, it redirects, but it adds the query string to end of the url (i.e. www.nwcolorado.com/? or www.nwcolorado.com/?listingID=201).

I want to redirect:

http://www.nwcolorado.com/NWR_Listingview.php?listingID=201

to:

http://www.nwcolorado.com/

How would I accomplish this?

Also, is there a simple way to do this for all dynamic urls using "NWR_Listingview.php" as the base? Reason I ask is that there are several listings that need to be redirected to the home page.

Here's my htaccess file thus far:

Code:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

deny from 91.74.160.18

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^nwcolorado.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.nwcolorado.com$

Redirect 301 /NWR_BuyingProcess.php http://www.nwcolorado.com/contact-us/
Redirect 301 /NWR_Buyingsellingtips.php http://www.nwcolorado.com/help-faq/real-estate-tips/
Redirect 301 /NWR_Contactus.php http://www.nwcolorado.com/contact-us/
Redirect 301 /NWR_Localphotogallery.php http://www.nwcolorado.com/local-information/fort-collins-photos/

Much thanks in advance.

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April 17th, 2008, 01:57 AM

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Just to be clear, I don't want to rewrite the old urls, I want to redirect them to the main domain. I'm throughly diving through the web looking for viable solutions, but still no luck.

I generally don't rush people for help, it's just that I took this client's site live recently and the search engine spiders are very active with it.

Thanks.

April 17th, 2008, 10:46 AM

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Doing the redirect with mod_rewrite would probably remove the query string.

You could also just redirect in the NWR_Listingview.php PHP, no?

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April 17th, 2008, 11:10 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by jharnois

Doing the redirect with mod_rewrite would probably remove the query string.

You could also just redirect in the NWR_Listingview.php PHP, no?

Hi Jeremy,

Thanks for your help.

I tried putting the code below in the .htaccess file, but it didn't work. Is there something I'm doing wrong? :

Code:

RewriteRule ^NWR_Listingsearch.php$ http://www.nwcolorado.com/? [R=301,L]

Now my htaccess file is like this:

Code:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

deny from 91.74.160.18

RewriteRule ^NWR_Listingsearch.php$ http://www.nwcolorado.com/? [R=301,L]
Redirect 301 /NWR_BuyingProcess.php http://www.nwcolorado.com/help-faq/real-estate-tips/
Redirect 301 /NWR_Contactus.php http://www.nwcolorado.com/contact-us/
Redirect 301 /NWR_Localphotogallery.php http://www.nwcolorado.com/local-information/fort-collins-photos/

I don't want to redirect via the NWR_Listing.php page for SEO reasons, something I just learned late last night from one of Matt Cutts' videos (the head of Google's Webspam team).

Thanks.

April 18th, 2008, 07:45 AM

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It should be ^NWR_Listingsearch\.php$ but that shouldn't prevent it from matching. You might add the NC (no case) flag, too.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by jharnois

It should be ^NWR_Listingsearch\.php$ but that shouldn't prevent it from matching. You might add the NC (no case) flag, too.

Thanks again for your continued support.

I tried what you suggested, minus the nc part for now, but no dice.

Here's what I have thus far:

Code:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

deny from 91.74.160.18

RewriteRule ^NWR_Listingview\.php$ http://www.nwcolorado.com/ [R=301,L]

Redirect 301 /NWR_BuyingProcess.php http://www.nwcolorado.com/help-faq/real-estate-tips/
Redirect 301 /NWR_Contactus.php http://www.nwcolorado.com/contact-us/
Redirect 301 /NWR_Localphotogallery.php http://www.nwcolorado.com/local-information/fort-collins-photos/

April 21st, 2008, 07:19 AM

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I don't see any issues with your syntax. Your next step is to enable a RewriteLog, which requires access to httpd.conf, and to remove other directives to see how their existence affects your rule.

Note that without the NC flag, you must request NWR_Listingview.php case correctly or the RewriteRule will not match.

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