A little permanent redirection issue.

[youngbobby]

Hi everybody,

I am having a little permanent URL redirection issue here. The 1st code below works fine but I'm having issues with the second. A little assistance will be appreciated. Thanks :)


This one was successful:

RewriteRule ^Categories/([0-9]+/[0-9]+/[A-Za-z0-9-]+)/$ http://SITEURL/Categories/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^Categories/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)?$ /Site/categoryView.php?page=$1&id=$2&catname=$3 [L]

This is where my main issue lies.

RewriteRule ^Directory([0-9]+).php?$ http://SITEURL/Site/Directory$1.php [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^Directory([0-9]+).php?$ /Site/Directory.php?page=$1 [L]

I don't know what I'm not doing right? :-/

[g1smd]

The Redirect should have a preceding RewriteCond testing THE_REQUEST so that the redirect is invoked only for direct client requests.

There's several thousand prior threads with example code, as this is a question that comes up every few days. It's not too obvious how to prevent the infinite loop that otherwise occurs.

[youngbobby]

OK, I've done that..

Just in case this is what i used.

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page=([0-9]+)?$
RewriteRule ^Directory([0-9]+).php?$ http://SITEURL/Site/Directory$1.php [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^Directory([0-9]+).php?$ /Site/Directory.php?page=$1 [L]

Not too good with mod_rewrite so if i'm wrong, don't hesitate to tell me that i am. :)

[g1smd]

You have tested QUERY_STRING which can be altered by rewrites.

You need to test THE_REQUEST to see what the browser actually asked for.

[jdMorgan]

We need to back off here and establish a few basic points first:

What is the overall purpose of these rules? In terms of requested URLs and server filepaths, what are you trying to accomplish?

What is the specific problem? What did you expect to happen, and how did your test results differ from what you expected?

How did you test to reveal that problem? -- For example, what URLs are you testing with?

Jim