.htaccess to permanently forward dynamic page

[maartenvr]

I am trying to use .htaccess to permanently forward dynamic pages. I tried the following:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^prod=widgets$ 
RewriteRule ^shop/proddetail\.php$ http://www.site.com/shop/page.php [R=301,L]

But this is not working... what am I doing wrong?

[ZYV]

Looks like if the problem were is RewriteCond. Try it without ^ & $ and also, it seemed to me that there should be some other way to read GET variables. Hm...

[maartenvr]

Looks like if the problem were is RewriteCond. Try it without ^ & $ and also, it seemed to me that there should be some other way to read GET variables. Hm...

Nope, that did not do it

[sdjl]

Do you get any errors?

^ and $ are generally needed to dictate the start and end delimiters to the condition.

David

[maartenvr]

Nope, no errors!

[sdjl]

Is that no errors shown on the page or no errors in the error log under cPanel?
I find that the error log produces some good information even if the browser doesnt show it

David

[maartenvr]

Nope, nothing in the error log...

[ZYV]

Actually I think that your assumptions on the content of QS are wrong. Try to print it out via PHP:

<?php echo $_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]; ?>

I've also found an example similar to what you are trying to achieve:

----* 	mod_rewrite: transparent CGI redirect

Instead of test.shtml?parm=N we'll show /cgi-bin/test.cgi?param=1

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /test.shtml
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} param=[0-9]+
    RewriteRule ^(.+) $1/%{QUERY_STRING}  [C]
    RewriteRule ^/test.shtml/param=([0-9]+) /home/user/cgi-bin/test.cgi?param=$1 [T=application/x-httpd-cgi,L]

Note that there is no ^/$ begin/end delimiters.

[maartenvr]

This one seems kinda backwards to me...? I don't need to go from static to dynamic, but the other way around...

[sdjl]

How about doing it all in one line. Not as astehtically pleaseing, but you never know, it may work

RewriteRule ^shop/proddetail\.php\?prod=widgets$ http://www.site.com/shop/page.php [R=301,L]

David

[maartenvr]

Nope, that still doesn't do it... I have tried so many things.... but nothing has worked yet!