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Htaccess redirect veriables

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NoisyLittleMonkey last edited by

Hey,

I'm trying to redirect all instances of "/archive_details.php?id=*" to "/public-affairs-job-archive.php". Is the below code correct?

Redirect 301 /archive_details.php?id=* /public-affairs-job-archive.php

Thanks, Luke.
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NoisyLittleMonkey last edited by

Exactly what i was looking for.

Thanks!
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SorinaDascalu last edited by

Your construction is not correct because the second parameter in your redirect, the url you are redirecting to, needs to be the full url, like this: http://www.yourdomain.com/public-affairs-job-archive.php

If you need to redirect any URLs matching a phrase you can use RedirectMatch -it performs a regular expression redirect.

In your case the redirect will look like this:

RedirectMatch 301 /archive_details.php?id=(.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/public-affairs-job-archive.php
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