.htaccess redirection problem

[maxtter]

I have this url

http://www.example.com/news/page.php?s=page_name

which doesn't exist any more. I would like to redirect it to home page /

Any help appreciated :)

[lucy24]

What have you tried so far? Read any six consecutive threads in this forum and you should have enough information to keep you busy.

[maxtter]

I was busy for hours, but no luck :( I think this is the best I have so far, but it's not working:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^s\=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^/news/page.php/index\.php$ /? [R=301,L]

[lucy24]

You don't need to escape literal equals signs.

The Condition as written will work on any query that begins with "s=". You don't need capturing parentheses or a closing anchor; in fact you don't even need the .* if all that matters is s=

The Rule as written will take any request for the exact page

www.example.com/news/page.php/index\.php

(whoops! forgot to escape the first literal period) and redirect it to the home page after deleting the whole query string.

Is that what you intended? Can't help but suspect it isn't, what with those two separate "php" elements.

:: memo to self: write up boilerplate on what to say instead of "it's not working" ::

[maxtter]

All I need is to this url

http://www.example.com/news/page.php?s=page_name

redirect to the home page.

So all after www.example.com matters, not just s=

[g1smd]

The

%{QUERY_STRING}

to match with the

RewriteCond

RegEx is

(^|&)s=page_name(&|$)

The path to match with the

RewriteRule

RegEx pattern is

^news/page\.php

The target URL is

http://www.example.com/

The

[R=301,L]

flags will make this a 301 redirect.

What's the problem?

[maxtter]

It works :) No problem any more :)
Thank you very much!