Is EE causing this - 301 .htaccess | Community Support

#1 / Jul 26, 2011 10:49am
e-finity
22 posts
Hi all,

Quick question -

I am trying to do a simple 301 redirect using an .htaccess file.
```
redirect 301 /old-page.php <a href="http://www.domain.com/new-page">http://www.domain.com/new-page</a>
```
It works fine, except the URL looks like this -

http://www.domain.com/new-page?old-page.php

I don’t know why that variable is there and I can’t find anything explaining it so thought it may be EE related?

It’s important the page isn’t indexed by search engines with that variable as it’ll create a duplicate content issue.

Thanks!
#2 / Jul 26, 2011 11:47am
PressEnter Creative
235 posts
Try this; make sure it’s above your EE rewrite rules.
```
RewriteRule ^old-page.php$ <a href="http://www.domain.com/new-page">http://www.domain.com/new-page</a> [R=301,L]
```
#3 / Jul 26, 2011 11:51am

e-finity
22 posts

It works fine in regards the redirect but I still get the variable at the end.

I’ve 301’d pages before but I just don’t get this.

Also, as said above I don’t know that this is an EE issue, just can’t find anything on it elsewhere so assume it maybe.
#4 / Jul 26, 2011 12:48pm

PressEnter Creative
235 posts

Can you please post the contents of your .htaccess file? It’s coming from a rewrite rule somewhere in there…

#5 / Jul 26, 2011 1:18pm

e-finity

22 posts

Here you go -

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com
RewriteRule (.*) <a href="http://www.domain.com/$1">http://www.domain.com/$1</a> [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/.*index.html$ 
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.html$ $1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?$1 [L

Thanks.

#6 / Jul 26, 2011 2:44pm

PressEnter Creative
235 posts

The redirect you mentioned doesn’t seem to appear in what you pasted there… can’t troubleshoot it unless it’s there.

#7 / Jul 26, 2011 4:55pm

e-finity

22 posts

Sorry, literally looks like this - only with my domain.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com
RewriteRule (.*) <a href="http://www.domain.com/$1">http://www.domain.com/$1</a> [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/.*index.html$ 
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.html$ $1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?$1 [L

redirect 301 /old-page.php <a href="http://www.domain.com/new-page">http://www.domain.com/new-page</a>

Thanks.

#8 / Jul 26, 2011 5:25pm

PressEnter Creative

235 posts

Per my original reply, your redirect needs to appear before/above your EE rewrite rules. The order in which rules are written makes a difference.

# Turn on the Rewrite Engine
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# If no sub domain specified, bounce to www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com
RewriteRule (.*) <a href="http://www.domain.com/$1">http://www.domain.com/$1</a> [R=301,L]

# If pulling up old-page.php, redirect to /new-page
RewriteRule ^old-page.php$ <a href="http://www.domain.com/new-page">http://www.domain.com/new-page</a> [R=301,L] 

# If accessing any index.html file, redirect to the location without index.html
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/.*index.html$ 
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.html$ $1 [R=301,L]

# Standard EE index.php elimination; process any request that isn't a file, directory or graphic with index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?$1 [L]

#9 / Jul 26, 2011 6:37pm

e-finity
22 posts

Thanks for that -

You know what, just by fluke that I had it open I tested this in Firefox, no variable on the URL, so tested it in Chrome, no variable - tested it in IE9 still has the variable in the URL.

It must be browser related?

I’ve cleared the cache out etc…

My original concern was that Google would index the URL with the variable but I’m pretty sure it won’t now as it seems to be browser related.

Thanks for cleaning up my .htaccess file!
#10 / Jul 26, 2011 6:41pm

Dan Decker
7338 posts

Hello e-finity,

Looks like this is no longer an issue for you? I’m going to move this into Community Help to keep this discussion going!

Best,

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