301 Redirect for Dynamic URL

[Digino]

Hi guys,
I'm trying to do a 301 redirect from a dynamic page to a static one.

The dynamic URL is http://www.example.com/?id=109 and I'm trying to redirect to http://www.example.com/programme/. The below code is throwing up an error for me and I'm getting an error when I enable the below htaccess redirect.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=109$
RewriteRule ^\$ http://www.example.com/programme/ [R=301,L]

[edited by: jdMorgan at 12:35 pm (utc) on May 19, 2010]
[edit reason] example.com [/edit]

[g1smd]

"Not working" is so vague that the only answer I can logically give you is, "it's broken".



The

^\$

pattern isn't valid. It's looking for a URL Request like

example.com/[b]$[/b]

or

example.com/[b]$[/b]<something>

.

See [webmasterworld.com...] for a very similar question and full answer.

Use 'example.com' to stop the forum messing with your code.

[jdMorgan]

If you do not have any other working rules, it is possible that you may need to add

Options +FollowSymLinks

or

Options +FollowSymLinks -Indexes -MultiViews

ahead of your RewriteEngine directive, in order to enable mod_rewrite.

This is documented in the Apache mod_rewrite documentation, and if this is the problem, your server error log will say so.

As g1smd pointed out, the "^\$" pattern is incorrect, and for your example URL, should be just "^$"

Be aware that redirecting this request without explaining the action may confuse your visitors. It is generally a much better idea to replace the page with an explanation that it is obsolete or gone, and then provide links to your home page, related-category or -articles pages, HTML site map page, and site search function, as appropriate.

Jim