301 redirects?

**madstock** · 06-09-04

I have recently registered a shed load of domains and walloped together "mini sites", using info that was previously part of our main directory site - i.e. instead of http://www.mainsite.co.uk/bananas there is now http://www.minibananasite.co.uk (with the previous directory "bananas" now pointing at the new site).

All of this is fine and dandy, however under the old site I had a set up like:

http://www.mainsite.co.uk/bananas/details.php?q=bananaretailer1 - this would then give a lovely optimised page that details all about "bananaretailer1" - what I would like to do is automatically redirect this to the new site, but I really haven't got a Scooby, to utilise the language of my 4-year old...

I understand that a 301 within a .htaccess goes something like:

Redirect 301 /page.php http://www.newsite.co.uk/newpage.php

However I would like to make:

http://www.mainsite.co.uk/bananas/details.php?q="WHATEVER"

resolve to

http://www.minibananasite.co.uk/details.php?q="WHATEVER"

where the bit after q= is a variable, as opposed to a constant string..

Please can someone put me out of my misery?

Cheers

**loquax** · 06-09-04

Have you tried

Redirect 301 /bananas/ http://www.minibananasite.co.uk/

think that should work?

Jason

**madstock** · 06-09-04

Thanks Jason - that is what we are doing for the "main" directories - the problem was with redirecting variables as opposed to a static constant - e.g. if someone clicks on a link to

http://www.oldsite.com/olddirectory/search.php?q=WHATEVER&order=WHATEVER

they are automatically redirected to:

http://www.newsite.com/newsearch.php?q=WHATEVER&order=WHATEVER

If it helps, there are only a couple of these types of files, they are all php, so I suppose I could edit the existing PHP file - which would lead to a further question - "How would one go about making dynamic php redirects" -

e.g.

1) Create a file called "details.php", which takes the bit after q=

<?

$details=$q;

echo $site[$details]."";

?>

2) Call the output of details.php within the header of

<?
include ("details.php");
Header ("Location: http://www.site2.co.uk/search.php?q=$details"); ?>

The problems with this are threefold:

1. The Header function cannot be used, as a header has already been called

2. "fopen" would expect more than 1 variable, and

3. I haven't really got the foggiest about what I am doing

If there is a simple "write this page" function that can be used instead of Header , above I would probably be on my way...

Apologies for the rambling once again...