htaccess & Question marks

OnlineMerchants · 14-09-07

Hi all,

Wonder if anyone could help with a problem i'm having with a htaccess fie.

Ok I want to redirect to a different page when only the following url is called:

http://www.domainname.com/cgi-bin/fo...ction=register

so in my htaccess file I put the following:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
redirect 301 /cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl(.*)register$ http://www.someotherdomain.com

Unfortunately the above doesn't work for me - i've tried escaping the . to no avail.
Also tried it with and without the $

As a test if I just do the one below then it works but redirects all pages where I only
want that one particular page redirected.

Code:

RewriteEngine on
redirect 301 /cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl http://www.someotherdomain.com

Any ideas as to where i'm going wrong would be appreciated

Cheers

Steve

wibble99 · 14-09-07

I seem to remember looking into this a while back and found that the query string is lost and there's nothing you can do about it.

I spent ages thinking I was doing something wrong and trying everything, then after a lot of looking around I found that other people had had the same problem and it was caused by the query string not being accessible to .htaccess - so it's not a problem with escaping the question mark, it's that the question mark and query string aren't there.

I'm not saying that there can't be a solution somewhere, but it may not be straight forward.

esnagel · 14-09-07

Are you overthinking this? Why not just do the 301 redirect in the perl script?

OnlineMerchants · 15-09-07

Hi,

Thanks guys for your replies - appreciated!!

In the end I did as Eric suggested and added a 301 redirect in a perl script and
called it in from the subroutine.

Now when people press register/post reply etc it takes them to the new forum and
it enables me to leave the old content there for the SE's.

Cheers

Steve