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I’m finding it almost impossible to get an answer on this one, so I thought I would turn to the forum with the most geniuses. 😊

I just rebuilt a site that formerly existed on ColdFusion.

I want to do a 301 redirect with htaccess for pages that formerly had a coldfusion query string. The old server used CF and the new server uses PHP.

For example…

Take this

<a href="http://www.example.com/product.cfm?SID=10&Product_ID=5">http://www.example.com/product.cfm?SID=10&Product_ID=5</a>

and make it go to

<a href="http://www.example.com/widget5/">http://www.example.com/widget5/</a>

I thought this would be easy.  Any ideas?

Where a query string is used, the 301 redirect solution for static pages will not work; you’ll need to use a rewrite solution. Using “page.php?id=13” as an example, here’s what you’ll need to use in your htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=13$
RewriteRule ^/page.php$ http://www.example.com/newname.htm? [L,R=301]

In the example above the id=13 should be replaced with the query string of the page you wish to redirect and the page.php with the name of your file prior to the query string.

Thanks for posting that. I had forgotten my post in here.

I tried many combinations prior to your post. The method I finally found that worked was…

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^SID=10&Product_ID=25$
RewriteRule product.cfm /my_product_page/$1? [R=301,L]

Again, thanks for your post!

That works!

Hmmm. We can’t seem to get it to work more than once…i.e. when we string a few of these together to match multiple different query-string based urls it fails.

Were u able to get multiple rewrites like this to work in the same .htaccess file?

Yes, I have several of these rules stacked with different query strings and it’s working great.

Make sure to change the second line where product.cfm might be something different… like category.cfm or about.cfm or similar.

Also, the order of your rewrite rules can make or break the result.

Hey there,

I am having the same issue with a site that I moved to EE from Miva Merchant. Their pages consisted of this:

http://mydomain.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=CHEM

Any ideas on how can I redirect these permanently to the new categories and pages? I have tried the solution outlined here, but with no success. The /mm5 crap is no longer being used in anyway. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks a million!

-Danielle

Any ideas out there in EE land? 😊

Todd:

Could you say more about things that make/break this?

Your solution would seem to fix EXACTLY my problem.  But I can’t get it to work.  I suspect it’s not playing nicely with the rest of the htaccess file.

Thanks,
Alan

Todd:

Could you say more about things that make/break this?

Your solution would seem to fix EXACTLY my problem.  But I can’t get it to work.  I suspect it’s not playing nicely with the rest of the htaccess file.

Thanks,
Alan

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Todd:

Could you say more about things that make/break this?

Your solution would seem to fix EXACTLY my problem.  But I can’t get it to work.  I suspect it’s not playing nicely with the rest of the htaccess file.

Thanks,
Alan

http://tbldevelopmentfirm.com/services/ipad-development/
http://tbldevelopmentfirm.com/  check it out here

This post is ages old, but I stumbled across it after trying probably 40 other combinations of techniques from all over the Internet - THANK YOU, this is the only method that worked!