cannot redirect querystring url

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I am trying to clean url redirecting query string URL. I've tried all answer and rules provided in stackoverflow and in other sites, but nothing changed. I thought it was .htaccess file error, but I found it is working fine to generate other error. I am trying to redirect

http://localhost/ourallnews/category.php?cat=News

To

http://localhost/ourallnews/News/

First I tried using this.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^cat=(\w+)
RewriteRule ^ourallnews/category\.php$ /ourallnews/%1? [R=302,L]

After that I tried

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^cat=(\w+)$
RewriteRule ^ourallnews.*$ /ourallnews/%1/? [R=302,L]

Nothing changed.

I clear browser cache, restart apache but doesn't work. Querystring url is remained.

Then finally this one brings change.

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} .
RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI}? [R=301,L]

It change

http://localhost/ourallnews/category.php?cat=News

to

http://localhost/ourallnews/category.php

But my requirement is show querystring value not URI.

http://localhost/ourallnews/news/

Please help me

Amit Verma · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-28 06:13:56Z

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You can use this

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^cat=(\w+)
RewriteRule ^ourallnews/category\.php$ /ourallnews/%1? [R=302,L]

This will redirect /ourallnews/category.php?cat=value to /ourallnews/value .

answered May 28, 2018 at 6:13

Amit Verma

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Dipak Over a year ago

I tried this, but nothing changed. Along with your answer, I tried all answer provided in stackoverflow, but no luck. This one RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} . RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI}? [R=301,L] changed http://localhost/ourallnews/category.php?cat=News to http://localhost/ourallnews/category.php But can't fulfill my requirements. Please see updated question. Thanks for your co-operation.

Amit Verma Over a year ago

@AnandHmt What url are you going to and What error do you get?

Dipak Over a year ago

Is there any way to show htaccess error log ? When adding this line in htaccess, nothing change. I mean when http://localhost/ourallnews/category.php?cat=News link is visited, then it would be automatically changed in http://localhost/ourallnews/news/. but it doesn't changed, still same url with querystring remained.

Amit Verma Over a year ago

This rule is working fine for me on my server. I think you have placed it somewhere in your htaccess where it's not being called or being overridden by other rules. Put this at the top of your htaccess (before other directives) and clear your browser cache to test it.

Dipak Over a year ago

I added top, cleared cache, delete and recreate .htaccess adding only this 3 lines, still no luck, Does html/php coding structure affect htaccess rule ? I think the problem is from php/html file

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Grokify · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-28 06:16:06Z

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The following works for me:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^cat=(\w+)$
RewriteRule ^ourallnews.*$ /ourallnews/%1/? [R=302,L]

Some differences with yours:

RewriteRule match:

^ourallnews.*$ which will match anything that starts with ourallnews
^ourallnews/$ which won't match because $ means end of string without a category.php

RewriteRule rewrite:

/ourallnews/%1/? is your desired output URL
There's no need to map to category.php in the rewrite result

answered May 28, 2018 at 6:16

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Dipak Over a year ago

I tried this, but nothing changed. Along with your answer, I tried all answer provided in stackoverflow, but no luck. This one RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} . RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI}? [R=301,L] changed http://localhost/ourallnews/category.php?cat=News to http://localhost/ourallnews/category.php But can't fulfill my requirements. Please see updated question. Thanks for your co-operation.

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