* wildcard htaccess 301 redirect - Irish SEO, Marketing & Webmaster Discussion

Cormac · #1 (**permalink**) 16-04-2008, 02:51 PM

I'm trying to setup a redirect so that any request to any page which ends in ?page_id gets redirected to the homepage of the site.
The following rule is placed within the htaccess file but it throws up an internal server error:

Code:

RewriteRule ^?page_id=(.*)$ /http://site.something.com [L,R=301]

Any ideas?

paul · #2 (**permalink**) 16-04-2008, 03:11 PM

Code:

RewriteRule ^?page_id=(.*)$ /http://site.something.com [L,R=301]

this doesn't look right, i.e. the forward slash...

louie · #3 (**permalink**) 16-04-2008, 03:17 PM

try this

Code:

RewriteRule ^(.*)?\?page_id=(.*)?$ http://site.something.com [L,R=301]
#or this
RewriteRule ^(.*)?([\?])page_id=(.*)$ http://site.something.com [L,R=301]

also you have a "/" in front of the http:// which shouldn't be there

louie · #4 (**permalink**) 16-04-2008, 03:21 PM

or try this option

Code:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page_id=(.*) 
RewriteRule /* http://site.something.com [R=301,L]

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