Rewrite and Redirect

[mollyhunter]

Hi All

I am using mod rewrite to make a URL seo friendly, the code looks like this:

RewriteRule ^Testing-Instruments.html$ /cgi-bin/ab_page.pl?ref=3.6

I now want to 301 redirect the old dynamic URL to the SEO friendly one but it's creating some kind of loop and isn't working, the code I tried is:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^ref=3.6$
RewriteRule ^cgi-bin/ab_page\.pl$ http://www.domain.co.uk/Testing-Instruments.html? [R=301,L]

I've searched forums and found a command called {THE_REQUEST} which I think may be the answer, but cannot figure out how to implement it to make it work. Please be gentle with me, very new to all this.

Does anyone have any ideas?


Molly

[g1smd]

Yes, test THE_REQUEST before the redirect.

THE REQUEST contains "GET /somepath/somepage?someparam HTTP/1.1" or similar.

List the two-line redirect before the one-line rewrite.