.htaccess redirect url with query string to other page + query string

Question

I'm encountering a problem with my .htaccess file and with my limited knowledge of PHP I cant seem to figure this one out.

Goal: I want to redirect traffic that goes to my main page but has a query string, to be redirected to a different page with the query string intact. Like so:

https://www.mywebpage.com/?wd8RL4T6Q00&17.07&52LJqY-emLU&0

to

https://www.mywebpage.com/player.html?wd8RL4T6Q00&17.07&52LJqY-emLU&0

The user can only see the first and underlying pages like (https://www.mywebpage.com/howto.html) still have to be reachable.

In pseudo code (but somewhat resembling javascript ;) my solution would be something like:

if (querystring) {
  redirect to './player.html' + querystring
}

What I have tryd:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (.*)
RewriteRule player.html  %1

But this seemed to redirect all traffic somehow.. Thanks for your help in advance!

Daan Meijer · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-26 09:29:13Z

1

Your current RegExp just matches everything. That's what the .* means. Instead, if you want the query string to have at least 1 character, you can change it to .+. I think that solves your current problem.

Then, for the redirect:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (.+)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/?$
RewriteRule .* /player.html [L]

edited Aug 26, 2020 at 9:29

answered Aug 25, 2020 at 13:03

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Lennart Over a year ago

Hey Daan, thanks! That works! Now it selects only the links that have a query string in them. RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (.+)

Daan Meijer Over a year ago

Great! If it's the solution to your problem, please accept my answer :)

Lennart Over a year ago

Well, it is for the first part.. but not for the second part. I guess this line is right now: RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (.+) So it rewrites only the links that have a query string in them. But not this line: RewriteRule player.html %1 So it still comes up with a 500 error. Do you know what I can do to refer it to the right page with the query string attached?

Daan Meijer Over a year ago

I've added to my answer. Is this what you hoped to achieve?

Lennart Over a year ago

Hey Daan, thanks for your anwswer again! I'm getting a ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS. Maybe it picks up on the query string again when redirecting to /player.html?wd8RL4T6Q00&17.07&52LJqY-emLU&0 ? Don't know if the .htaccess file is read again after the redirect. Also the URL visible to the user changes now to: mywebpage.com/player.html?wd8RL4T6Q00&17.07&52LJqY-emLU&0. That is not supposed to happen. It should say: mywebpage.com/?wd8RL4T6Q00&17.07&52LJqY-emLU&0

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