PHP: Rewrite rule with variable query string

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I am in the middle of changing our site URL structure from this site.com/?team=john-doe to site.com/attorney/john-doe. I have the typical WordPress Htaccess rewrite rules in the htaccess file but what I'm having trouble is we have multiple attorneys that have the ?team=followed by the name. I am trying to do one rule to redirect all with the name being a variable - if that makes sense.

site.com/?team=jane-doe
site.com/?team=nic-cage

Below I commented out a method but when I tried it I got 500 Internal Server error:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
#RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^?team=([x]*)$
#RewriteRule ^(.*) site.com/attorneys/$1 [R=302,L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

I also applied this regex:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/?team=(.*)$ site.com/attorneys/$1

Regex is pretty confusing, sorry if I'm not making any sense. I can try and clarify if needed.

Amit Verma · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-22 16:30:16Z

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RedirectMatch only works for uris .you can't access querystring using this directive. You can use the following RewriteRule , add this before your wordpress rules :

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^team=(.+)$
RewriteRule ^ http://example.com/attorneys/%1? [L,R]

answered Mar 22, 2017 at 16:30

Amit Verma

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Jose Over a year ago

Thanks - I will give this a shot after business hours. Will report back!

Ankit Prajapati · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-22 16:21:56Z

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I am not so much sure but can you try this
RewriteRule ^/?team=(.*)$ http://Yoursitename/attorneys/$1 [R=301,L]

answered Mar 22, 2017 at 16:21

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Jose Over a year ago

Thanks - I will give this a shot after business hours. Will report back!

Jose Over a year ago

Hi @Ankit Prajapati the final solution was RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^team=(.*)$ RewriteRule ^(.*) https://www.andrewsmyers.com/attorneys/%1? [R=301,L]

Olaf Dietsche · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-22 17:39:31Z

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This is just a guess, but I think the leading question mark ? in

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^?team=([x]*)$

is the reason for the 500 server error, because ? is a special character.

? means the preceding element is optional, but since there is no preceding element in ^?team=, this is an error. If you want to match a literal question mark, you must escape it with a backslash \?.

Although, in this case (QUERY_STRING), this is not necessary, because QUERY_STRING does not contain the leading question mark, just the query string itself. This means checking for team=(.*) would be sufficient

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^team=(.*)$

There are additional issues with the rule

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$ will match only the home page, nothing else
RewriteRule ^(.*) site.com/attorneys/$1 [R=302,L] will not redirect to site.com, because it is missing http://
and finally, the back-reference for matches in RewriteCond is %1 instead of $1

answered Mar 22, 2017 at 17:39

Olaf Dietsche

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Jose Over a year ago

Thanks for your descriptive response. So I updated my rules to what you have suggested and it's currently appending ?team=john-doe to the new destination URL. Ex., http://www.example.com/attorneys/?team=john-doe

Olaf Dietsche Over a year ago

Yes, I missed that. My answer just explains, why you get a 500 error. But @starkeen already solved this problem with his answer by adding a question mark to the target. This prevents, that the previous query string is added to the new target.

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