Tricky Rewrite Rule

[benjosen]

Hi,
I have posted this on a German forum but nobody could yet help me and it is quite urgent. So all my hope is for you ;[smilestopper])

I have the following problem:

URL old:
http://www.mydomain.de/index.php?s=2&Search_Brand=BRAND

URL new:
http://www.mydomain.de/brand

I made Conds and Rules – these are working just fine, e.g.:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^s=2&Search_Brand=BRAND$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /brand? [L,R=301]

These are special pages that have a new target URL. Besides those "important" ones the other URLs with /index.php?s=...., should all be redirected to the startpage.
So I want special rules for some URLs and the "rest" should be redirected to the startpage.

There is the rule I put at the end of all other rules:
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.mydomain.de/? [R=301,L]

It works just fine but now the special rules (see above) do not work anymore (even with [R=301,L]) and are also redirected to the startpage.

Anyone has a clue? I appreciate it.

[g1smd]

You need to check that a request for old URLs is a direct client request.

Check THE_REQUEST using a preceding RewriteCond. Additionally add the canonical domain to the target URL of that redirect.

There's a large number of prior examples here in this forum.

[benjosen]

Thanks a lot for your answer. Looks like it is working properly now.

[benjosen]

Obviously I was a bit to quick being happy ...

I am not sure if I got it right:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^s=2&Search_Brand=BRAND$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.de/brand? [L,R=301]

but how do I check THE_REQUEST? Do I need to add another RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} - but what to put there?

I have checked the forum but could not find a solution for my particular problem.

[jdMorgan]

This is the correct "structure," if not correct in every detail of RewriteCond and RewriteRule patterns:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]+\ /index\.php(#[^?&\ ]*)?\?([^&\ ]*&)?s=2&Search_Brand=([^&\ ]+)[^\ ]*\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index\.php http://www.example.com/%3? [R=301,L]

If you have trouble, please be very specific about the problem:

How did you test? (What URL did you type?)

What did you expect to happen?

What were the actual results?

How did actual results differ from your expectations?

Any browser messages?

Any relevant error messages in the server error log?

Any relevant information in the server access log?

Jim