Redirect and RewriteRule

[beingk]

So I'm trying to set a general redirect rule and a specific redirect, but it seems like the RewriteRule takes over the Redirect. So if I request http://example.com/folder/subfolder I end up at http://example.com/different-folder. Any way to make both of these work together?

Redirect /folder/subfolder http://example.com/some-folder [L,R=301]
RewriteRule /folder?(.*) http://example.com/different-folder [R=301,L]

Thanks!

[edited by: jdMorgan at 1:12 pm (utc) on Oct. 27, 2009]
[edit reason] example.com [/edit]

[jdMorgan]

It's not clear what you *do* want to happen, or what the differences in the two sets of requested URLs might be -- You have to tell Apache which URLs you do and/or do not wish to be affected by each directive.

You've further complicated things by using directives from two completely-different Apache modules, mod_alias and mod_rewrite. Your syntax for the Redirect directive is incorrect, and I'd strongly suggest that you take a look at the Apache documentation for both modules.

As written, your RewriteRule directive will affect *any* URL that *contains* "/folder" or "/folde", and so will always affect the same URLs (and more) that your Redirect directive affects. I suspect that you'll be much happier with more-specific and better-anchored patterns, and attention to the required syntax for each directive.

Jim

[beingk]

OK, I'll try to explain with an example:

[example-old.com...] needs to map to [example-new.com...]

but

[example-old.com...] needs to map to [example-new.com...]

and

[example-old.com...] needs to map to [example-new.com...]

So I suppose this translates to something like this?

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^press-center(.*)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^press-center/press-releases/?$
RewriteRule ^$ http://example-new.com/media? [L]
Redirect /press-center/press-releases http://example-new.com/media/press? [R=301,L]

Thanks!

[jdMorgan]

Using mod_rewrite for both redirects and putting the most-specific rule first should solve the problem, assuming that the 'real' old and new URLs (as opposed to these examples) are non-overlapping:

RewriteRule ^press-center/press-releases/?$ http://example-new.com/media/press? [R=301,L]
#
RewriteRule ^press-center(/.*)?$ http://example-new.com/media? [R=301,L]

In order to save time, I'd suggest that if you use *any* mod_rewrite directives, you do not 'mix and match' and try to use either the Redirect or RedirectMatch directives of mod_alias; Just use mod_rewrite for all external redirects and internal rewrites.

I assume that you added the "?" to both substitution URLs in order to remove any query strings from the requested URLs, although that is *not* what would happen were you to continue to use a mod_alias "Redirect" directive. I have reproduced that feature here.

Jim

[g1smd]

Don't mix "Redirect" and "RewriteRule" directives in the same .htaccess file. The order they are processed is server dependent and not dependent on the order you write them.