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Regex working in testing program but not in .htaccess

Answer 1

+1 A:

You don't need to escape slashes but the point. And RewriteRule don't care about caracters after interrogation point, so you have to use QSA flag.

But this redirection seems weird, how do you use this regexp in your htaccess ??

MatTheCat 2010-10-20 08:28:17

Yes a couple of unnecessary escapes, I'll take them out when it's working. I'm redirecting to another URL using the captured code

Chaoley 2010-10-20 08:44:53

You forget QSA, it's not the way of a htaccess redirection which serve to hide GET parameters..!

MatTheCat 2010-10-20 08:51:03

Actually this redirection is from an old URL that uses GET parameters to a new one that does not, and is handled below the current line. I'm checking the documentation for QSA now but is doesn't seem applicable as I'm not passing the query string.

Chaoley 2010-10-20 09:00:01

MatTheCat 2010-10-20 09:03:56

No, there's at least 150 of these old URLs in Google's index, it has to use a regex

Chaoley 2010-10-20 09:10:59

Isn't just GET parameters which change ?

MatTheCat 2010-10-20 09:13:54

OK, that would be a solution but the htaccess is now working, thanks for your help with the QSA flag

Chaoley 2010-10-20 13:17:11

Answer 2

+1 A:

bazmegakapa 2010-10-20 08:28:52

It should, but it isn't on my servers, development or production, other regexs are working fine on both

Chaoley 2010-10-20 08:48:54

That looks like it should work but it's not, it's driving me crazy

Chaoley 2010-10-20 09:10:07

Can you paste the whole rule as it is in your htaccess?

bazmegakapa 2010-10-20 09:21:14

Chaoley 2010-10-20 09:23:54

You should change this to the RewriteCond version, because RewriteRule will not check the query string.

bazmegakapa 2010-10-20 09:30:13

Also, don't you want to use $2 in your URL?

bazmegakapa 2010-10-20 09:30:53

Chaoley 2010-10-20 09:38:18

Sorry, that is the one I'm using, no the first capture is the numeric ID

Chaoley 2010-10-20 09:39:16

I don't get it... If RewriteCond and RewriteRule is in a separate line, I'm out of ideas :). Maybe I'm not drunk enough yet.

bazmegakapa 2010-10-20 09:45:16

Do you have http:// before example.com?

bazmegakapa 2010-10-20 10:01:25

Yes, but the problem is that htaccess isn't matching the regex, I'll have a drink too, see if it helps :)

Chaoley 2010-10-20 10:32:46

Ok, it's now redirecting but appending the query string

Chaoley 2010-10-20 12:02:09

It was a typo in my htaccess file, all fixed now, no need for more thinking fluid :)

Chaoley 2010-10-20 13:18:28

No worries, I would have gotten drunk anyways :).

bazmegakapa 2010-10-20 15:58:47

Answer 3

+1 A:

Done, with the help of both MatTheCat and bazmegakapa I got it to work, the {QUERY_STRING} solution was OK after I fixed my own typo, and after removing the QSA flag using the solution here http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=55432a1ab73cdf5a&hl=en it is now working, thanks again to both of you for your help.

Chaoley 2010-10-20 12:07:50

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