RedirectMatch

[Anvar]

Hi,
I want to redirect pages. For example.

http://www.site.com/ru/file-id-11.htm to http://www.site.ru/file-id-11.htm.

I tried with RedirectMatch. It looks like this

RedirectMatch 301 ^/ru/file-id-(.*)\.htm$ http://www.site.ru/file-id-$1.htm

It works fine. But my link looks like this

http://www.site.ru/file-id-11.htm?id=11.

What I am doing wrong here.

[edited by: Anvar at 12:11 am (utc) on Dec 31, 2011]

[Anvar]

Or is there any other method?

[g1smd]

Use RewriteRule for all of your rules. Forget about Redirect and RedirectMatch.

RewriteRule can be configured to do both redirects and rewrites and is much more versatile.

Add a question mark to the target URL to suppress query string data.

[Anvar]

Thanks for response. Yep, I tried it. But how to make it for dynamic pages? I have searched, but could not find anything useful for dynamic pages.

[g1smd]

If by dynamic you mean query strings, they pass through unchnaged unless you remove or alter them.

Detecting their value is as easy as using a preceding RewriteCond looking at %{QUERY_STRING}.