Well, I have tried to create a temporary redirect with wildcards:
http://www.example.com/index.php?topic=1578.0 to http://www.example.com/demo/showthread.php/1578
This is my htaccess:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
# Rules for topics:
RewriteRule ^index.php\?topic=([0-9\.0]+)$ /demo/showthread.php/$1
# Rule for homepage
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /demo/forum.php
My problem is with the rules for topics. Simply it does not redirect. Can you guide me the right direction?
A Query String Cannot be Matched Directly in the RewriteRule.
Use this instead:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} topic=([^&\s]+)
RewriteRule ^index.php /demo/showthread.php/%1? [L,R]
RewriteRule a redirection? because the idea is to send the browser to the new url. I am just reiceving the content of the new page but the url is not changing[L] by [R] and now is working as a champ.
R will rewrite in the browser, whereas L is a transparent redirect. Will update the answer since this is what you want. Once you are happy with the redirect, you can change the R to R=301. Thank you for the green check mark. :)
