Removing index.php & 301 redirects

Question

I am using the following in my .htaccess file to remove index.php:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
# Removes index.php
RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

# Redirect non-www to www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L] 
</IfModule>

I need to redirect an old page to a new, existing page but I am getting strange results.

I added the following to the .htaccess:

Redirect 301 /Payment.aspx /clients/login

But the url it redirects to looks like this:

http://www.myurl.com/clients/login?/Payment.aspx

It is adding that extra query string to the end of the URL.

Is there any way around this?

Answer 1

When people hit your /Payment.aspx path, will they sometimes be linked with a query string?

Also, for best results, try this:

RedirectMatch 301 (?i)^/Payment.aspx https://www.full-domain.com/clients/login

... which I'm 99% sure won't work if you do have query strings when you hit that payment path.

What you really want is a RewriteRule and then just drop query strings.

RewriteRule ^payment\.aspx$ /clients/login? [L,R=301,NC]

The trailing question mark should strip off any original query strings. The flags set it for 301, Last, and NoCase (ignore upper vs lower case payment.aspx variations. If the question mark doesn't do it, add a QSD flag (query string drop). That flag (QSD), I think, was introduced somewhat recently in mod_rewrite, so it may not be available in older versions and less maintenanced servers.

Also, this is dangerously close to not being EE related, but since you posted your EE related rewrites, I figured it was just close enough :p