.htaccess redirection help

[imthebest]

Hi guys,

I need help to redirect everything from:

http://www.mysite.com/forums/tags.php
http://www.mysite.com/forums/tags.php?tag=videos
http://www.mysite.com/forums/tags.php?tag=videos&page=2
http://www.mysite.com/forums/tags.php?tag=funny+stuff
http://www.mysite.com/forums/tags.php?tag=funny+stuff&page=2

to:

http://www.mysite.com/forums/tags/
http://www.mysite.com/forums/tags/videos/
http://www.mysite.com/forums/tags/videos/page-2
http://www.mysite.com/forums/tags/funny+stuff/
http://www.mysite.com/forums/tags/funny+stuff/page-2

How I can do this?

Thanks!

 

[melbo]

In .htaccess or your httpd conf file (whichever you use)

redirect 301 /forums/tags.php http://www.mysite.com/forums/tags/
redirect 301 /forums/tags.php?tag=videos http://www.mysite.com/forums/tags/videos/

etc.

 

[imthebest]

Thanks for the input but I forgot to mention that those URLs are just examples... I want to redirect a lot of those and I showed the URL structure looking for a redirection rule that will work for all of these!

 

[melbo]

@Jake Bunce is the wizard...

I use this to wildcard redirect all urls that match the criteria (/forum/blogs/) to a single url. you might be able to adapt on it or at least make it so you only need one rule for every 5 urls?

RedirectMatch 301 ^/forum/blogs/.*$ https://www.mysite.com/forums/blogs-have-moved.117/

 

[Jake Bunce]

There are 3 patterns there.

Add these rules to the top of the .htaccess file in the web root of http://www.mysite.com :

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|\?)tag=([^&]+)&page=([0-9]+)($|&)
RewriteRule ^tags\.php$ /forums/tags/%2/page-%3? [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|\?)tag=([^&]+)($|&)
RewriteRule ^tags\.php$ /forums/tags/%2/? [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^tags\.php$ /forums/tags/? [R=301,L]

 

[melbo]

@Jake Bunce is the wizard...

 

[imthebest]

@Jake Bunce unfortunately it's not working... for example this link:

www.mysite.com/forums/tags.php?tag=neutralidad

Is still going to the same path and XenForo is displaying the standard error message: "The request page wasn't found".

This is my .htaccess file on the root of my site:

###########################################################
# mod_rewrite and disable indexes
###########################################################
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymLinks
Options -Indexes

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|\?)tag=([^&]+)&page=([0-9]+)($|&)
RewriteRule ^tags\.php$ /forums/tags/%2/page-%3? [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|\?)tag=([^&]+)($|&)
RewriteRule ^tags\.php$ /forums/tags/%2/? [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^tags\.php$ /forums/tags/? [R=301,L]

###########################################################
# Add 'www.' prefix
###########################################################
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

###########################################################
# Root to forums
###########################################################
RedirectMatch permanent ^/$ http://www.mysite.com/forums

 

[imthebest]

@Mike could you please provide some assistance here? Many thanks!

 

[Jake Bunce]

My mistake.

Add these rules to the top of the .htaccess file in the /forums directory:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|\?)tag=([^&]+)&page=([0-9]+)($|&)
RewriteRule ^tags\.php$ /forums/tags/%2/page-%3? [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|\?)tag=([^&]+)($|&)
RewriteRule ^tags\.php$ /forums/tags/%2/? [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^tags\.php$ /forums/tags/? [R=301,L]

 

[imthebest]

@Jake Bunce I see that your redirection scripts are having troubles with these URLs:

tags.php?tag=espa%F1ol
tags.php?tag=telefon%EDa+m%F3vil
tags.php?tag=videoc%E1mara

Currently it's redirecting, respectively, to:

tags/espa%25F1ol/
tags/telefon%25EDa+m%25F3vil/
tags/videoc%25E1mara/

It should redirect, respectively, to:

tags/español/
tags/telefonía+móvil/
tags/videocámara/

Thanks!!

 

[Jake Bunce]

Try this:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|\?)tag=([^&]+)&page=([0-9]+)($|&)
RewriteRule ^tags\.php$ /forums/tags/${unesc:%2}/page-%3? [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|\?)tag=([^&]+)($|&)
RewriteRule ^tags\.php$ /forums/tags/${unesc:%2}/? [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^tags\.php$ /forums/tags/? [R=301,L]

I haven't tried this before but that's what I found in this guide:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18990593/apache-rewriterule-redirection-with-url-encoded

 

[imthebest]

Thanks @Jake Bunce but unfortunately it's not working.

 

[Jake Bunce]

Thanks @Jake Bunce but unfortunately it's not working.

Then maybe this syntax:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|\?)tag=([^&]+)&page=([0-9]+)($|&)
RewriteRule ^tags\.php$ /forums/tags/%{unesc:%2}/page-%3? [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|\?)tag=([^&]+)($|&)
RewriteRule ^tags\.php$ /forums/tags/%{unesc:%2}/? [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^tags\.php$ /forums/tags/? [R=301,L]

 

[imthebest]

@Jake Bunce it is still not working. I even tried adding the "NE" flag as per your source but no luck.

Any idea please?

 

[Alpha1]

Does anyone have a solution for this?