redirect multiple query string params

htaccess - redirect multiple query string to new seo friendly urls

[simwiz]

Hi, if anyone could help me with this it would be greatly appreciated.

I have three different url patterns

index.php?cat=11
index.php?subcat=18
index.php?cat=46&product=testing

I have the bellow in my htaccess

#redirect cat
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /testdir/index\.php\?cat=([a-z]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ [domain.co.uk...] [R=301]
RewriteRule ^([a-z-]+)/?$ index.php?cat=$1 [NC]

# Redirect for cat and product

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /spw/home2garden/index\.php\?cat=([a-z]+)\&product=([a-z-]+)
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ [domain.co.uk...] [R=301]
RewriteRule ^cat/([a-z-]+)/([a-z-]+).html?$ index.php?cat=$1&product=$2 [NC]

They work perfectly if only one of the above is present, either cat or product and cat. When I run the two param query string the result is a re-written and redirect url with only the first query string param.

I feel one is over writing the other. I thought the purpose of the rewritecond is so the rewrite work on a certain condition.

my rewrites work well but I just need to re-direct all instances of the query string regardless of how many are within the url.

if anyone can give me any guidance it would be greatly appreciated.

I'm nearly there!

[g1smd]

Lit all redirects first (the rules with R=301, that is).

List all of the rewrites after all of the redirects.

Add [L] to the end of EVERY rule.

Make sure you have a non-www/www redirect fix listed as the very last redirect before the rewrites.

Flush browser cache and test again.

[simwiz]

the first set of rules for index.php?cat=testcat would give /cat/testcat/ GREAT! the second set of rules for index.php?cat=testcat&product=prodname would give cat/testcat/prodname.html GREAT!

now when both are enabled no # the second querystring cat/productname would give the same output as the first!

I just thought I would make this slightly clearer

they both work, just not together!

[g1smd]

Have you made the changes that I asked you to make yet?

Post your updated code here.

[jdMorgan]

Rules in order: External redirects first, ordered from most-specific to least-specific, followed by internal rewrites, again ordered from most-specific to least-specific. Corrected regex patterns, made them consistent with each other, and added [L] flags:

# Redirect direct client requests for cat and product dynamic URL back to static URL
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]+\ /testdir/index\.php\?cat=([a-z\-]+)&product=([a-z\-]+)\ HTTP/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://example.co.uk/testdir/cat/%1/%2.html? [R=301,L]
#
# Redirect direct client requests for cat dynamic URL back to static URL
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]+\ /testdir/index\.php\?cat=([a-z\-]+)\ HTTP/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://example.co.uk/testdir/%1/? [R=301,L]
#
# Internally rewrite static cat and product URLs to dynamic filepaths
RewriteRule ^cat/([a-z\-]+)/([a-z\-]+)\.html?$ index.php?cat=$1&product=$2 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-z\-]+)/?$ index.php?cat=$1 [NC,L]

To the extent possible, I made these rules consistent with each other. However, it appears that your "cat" URLs end with a slash, while your cat+product URLs end with ".html". I'm not sure why you have this naming inconsistency, so I did not change it.

You should also pick one or the other of URLs ending with a trailing slash versus not ending with a trailing slash, and URLs ending with ".html" versus those ending with ".htm". Redirect the non-preferred URLs to the preferred ones, and then remove the "permissiveness" from the rules above. Allowing two different URLs to access the same content creates a duplicate-content issue -- one you can read about in many threads here.

Jim

[simwiz]

g1smd and Jim thank you for your replies and help. Since this is considered scripting I think my n00bish placement of redirect and rewriteRules were all over the place. I appreciate both your help immensely. THis is definitely a learning curve.

To answer your question to why the cat has a trailing forward slash is on the basis of the cat is a directory in my opinion and the product is a inner page so I wanted a file extension added to this.

The rewrite was intended to create categories as directory’s and products as html files. (I appreciate you not changing the pattern)!

Thanks again.