.htaccess Redirects - Including GET attributes

[CraigWatson]

I'm not sure which forum fits this question better - Servers or Programming but feel free to move it if it's needed.

The problem I'm having is this: I've just re-organised some of my website's pages, and the page www.site.com/index.php?page=2007script is now www.site.com/scripts.php?year=2007. I've already tried writing a .htaccess redirect, but this only looks for the filename and not any attributes after it, so for example:

Redirect 301 /index.php?page=2007script http://www.site.com/scripts.php

Has anybody got any suggestions as to how I can write the redirect how I want it?

Cheers,
Craig

[BlueC]

You need to use RewriteCond with the QUERY_STRING parament.

Basically you want something like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase   /
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} page=2007script
RewriteRule ^index.php(.*) scripts.php?year=2007

That should do the trick.

If you also have other years, like index.php?page=2006script -> scripts.php?year=2006 then you could get a bit clever and use something like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase   /
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} page=([0-9]*)script
RewriteRule ^index.php(.*) scripts.php?year=%1

HTH

[CraigWatson]

Awesome, that did the trick - cheers!

The only tweak I made was changing the last line to this:

RewriteRule ^index.php(.*) scripts.php?year=%1 [R=301]

So that the URL is displayed as the new URL.

Many thanks