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I have a 3rd party who passes traffic to my website.

Sometimes they use a string in their url like:

https://referrer.com/embed/section.htm?bikes=1

If the referrer passes traffic to me with the argument bikes=1 I'd like to serve up a different page.

How can I do this (I know this question has been done to death but I can't see an example that matches my question.)

EDIT

I've tried editting .htaccess with the following but it breaks access to the entire site (with a 500 error)

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^(.*)\.referrer\.(.*)\(*bikes*) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.my-site.com/bikes [L,R]

Another Edit!

Here's an example of an access.log entry where the 3rd party is posting to my site:

 90.xxx.xxx.xxx- - [21/Oct/2019:15:03:51 +0000] "POST /products HTTP/1.1" 200 23505 "https://referrer.com/embed/products.htm?bikes=1" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.120 Safari/537.36"

So, they're POSTing to my /products page. I want to redirect this to /bikes retaining the POST data (using 307 as suggested by @DeanTaylor

I've tested this out using some mod_rewrite testing tools but can't get the correct syntax.

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  • You can achieve it with server-side code (like php) as well as using htaccess. In php you can use $_GET to access query string and in htaccess you can write rewrite-condition. Come back with your initial effort. Commented Oct 19, 2019 at 15:40
  • Hmm, after reading a bit more into it, I think what I need might not be achievable. The 3rd party is POSTing data to me. If I initiate a conditional redirect, I think I'll lose the POST - is this correct? Commented Oct 19, 2019 at 15:52
  • To me it is unclear if you are talking about the URL actually requested from you or about the referrer URL. Those two are something quite different. Commented Oct 19, 2019 at 16:37
  • The referrer posts to my site. I want to redirect to a different page depending on the contents of the referrer URL Commented Oct 19, 2019 at 19:36
  • @Huskie69 you can use "307 Temporary Redirect" via [R=307,L] to cause the browser to re-submit the same POST data to the new URL. Commented Oct 21, 2019 at 12:10
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