Best regards, Dirk

RewriteEngine ON
RewriteCond %(REQUEST_FILENAME) !-d
RewriteCond %(REQUEST_FILENAME) !-f
RewriteCond %(REQUEST_FILENAME) !-l

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]

The mod_rewrite works perfectly. When A user enters randam movie name (name that does not exist in database), for example, http://www.helloworld.com/abcd, I have created a url redirect which is http://www.helloworld.com/oopsmovienotfound.php. This works fine too. But the problem I am having is this: When user click http://www.helloworld.com/login.php .The url keeps looping between login.php and oopsmovienotfound.php OR the url is forwarded to http://www.helloworld.com/oopsmovienotfound.php beacause database doesnot have “login.php” as a movie name. I thought this command

RewriteCond %(REQUEST_FILENAME) !-f

should have take care of this but its not. Please help. Thank you in advance.

I have a Parameter without a Value, in my URL like that: /home.weblog.html?rss

Now, i want to redirect to a new location /feed/

I try the following, but it doesn’t work:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^rss$
RewriteRule ^home\.weblog\.html$ /feed/? [R=301,L]

It only works, if i put a value to the parameter – for example rss=0 and do the redirect like that:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^rss=0$
RewriteRule ^home\.weblog\.html$ /feed/? [R=301,L]

It seems, that a parameter-name without value is not in the %{QUERY_STRING}…

How can i solve my problem?

in this URL

“73″ and “2″ and “1″ are Values
i tried to rewrite it like this

RewriteRule ^c([0-9]+)-(.+)-(.+)?resultpage=(.+)&aid=(.+)$ templates.php?cid=$1&resultpage=$4&aid=$5&search=yes.

But its not working… please help me to solve this issue… thanks in advance…!

http://www.pets.com/show_a_product.php?product_id=7

To
http://www.pets.com/products/7/

The form in show_a_product.php is expecting a product_id

Also there is no page on the server called
products/7/

What am I missing?

Thanks

my current permalink structure is: /%post_id%/%postname%/ I am using this for the last 3 months.

I have about five permalinks that I used before the latest that have all the errors:

/%postname% , /%postname%/.html , /%postname%.html , could you possibly show me a modrewrite example of how to design redirect permanent to my new and current permalink /%post_id%/%postname%/
all of my changes to permalink structure have a common post id number or postname..I really do not understand the process of query strings and how they apply. I have spend a thousand hours of readind and research and still cannot understand. I am 73 years old and hate to admit that I have problems understanding this stuff. Please help me get this settle…I will never change a permalink again once I get this fixed.

I am about to lose my mind over this stuff…John Gruhler

Trying to go from:
http://www.example.com/here/page.jspa?theID=35

To:
http://www.example.com/anotherpage/9999 (no correlation with theID above)

Using:
RewriteRule ^here/page\.jspa\?theID=35$ anotherpage/9999 [R=301,L]

I believe because there is a querystring in the From I cannot use that syntax and must first convert like:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^theID=1$
RewriteRule ^here/page\.jspa$ anotherpage/9999 [R=301,L]

Also, what is the best method if I have over 50,000 redirects from old pages that do not have matching IDs? The theID in the old system does not map to an ID in the new system. Do I have to have 50,000 RewriteCond and 50,000 corresponding RewriteRule?

Thanks for any help on this issue,
Frank

Here’s your code:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=20$
RewriteRule ^/index.php$ http://www.bonniegreendesigns.com.au/index.php?main_page=page&id=20 [L,R=301]

Here’s what it should be:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} id=20$
RewriteRule ^/index.php$ http://www.bonniegreendesigns.com.au/index.php?main_page=page&id=20 [L,R=301]

The only difference being the removal of the “^” in front of “^id=20$” on the “RewriteCond” line.

The %{QUERY_STRING} variable in this case actually would contain “main_page=page&id=20″ because it contains everything that comes after the “?” character. So with the regex string of “^id=20$” you are saying:

“Match this string if the string begins with “id” and ends with “20″”.

The string does not begin with id, it begins with “main_page”, therefore the match fails and the rewrite rule is skipped.

To Simone Carletti: THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!
Great post and exactly what I was needing. Really can’t thank you enough.