htaccess redirecting one query string to another

Question

I'd like to redirect http://domain.com/videos/?src=category1&video=video1

To http://domain.com/videos/watch?v=1

The obvious, just using a Redirect 301 /old /new doesn't work here. Here's my starting point and I can't seem to get this to redirect properly. This .htaccess file lives in the videos directory.

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^src=category1&video=video1$ [NC]
RewriteRule /videos/watch\?v=1 [L,R=301]

Can you share your attempted rule?

anubhava
– anubhava

2013-10-25 19:14:45 +00:00
Commented Oct 25, 2013 at 19:14 — anubhava
– anubhava, Commented Oct 25, 2013 at 19:14
I added some code that i've been working with.

Dan
– Dan

2013-10-25 19:17:19 +00:00
Commented Oct 25, 2013 at 19:17 — Dan
– Dan, Commented Oct 25, 2013 at 19:17

Jon Lin · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-25 19:37:41Z

2

Try:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^src=category1&video=video1$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ /videos/watch?v=1 [L,R=301]

You were missing the rewrite rule's regex pattern.

edited Oct 25, 2013 at 19:37

answered Oct 25, 2013 at 19:18

Jon Lin

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5 Comments

Dan Over a year ago

ah makes sense, still not working though - i'm not getting any errors. It's just not doing anything.

Jon Lin Over a year ago

@Dan is the htaccess file in your document root? or in a directory called "video"?

Dan Over a year ago

It's in the video directory. Ah so must be a path issue?

Jon Lin Over a year ago

@Dan yeah, the place the htaccess file is at determines what URI gets put through the rules, so we need to remove video from the pattern because that bit is stripped off.

Blza Box Over a year ago

Actually the RewriteRule should be RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /videos/watch?v=1 [R=301,L] or it will not work.

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