Redirecting Contact Us form in .htaccess

[bigwavemaui]

Ok,

I never got a redirect but the work around was to add a link to the top navigation to the correct contact form and to disable the links to the unprotected form in "define page status" in the configuration.

[g1smd]

Add the following to your main .htaccess and test.

RewriteRule ^index\.php?main_page=contact_us$ http://other_domain.com/contact.html [NC,R=301,L]

That code cannot possibly work.

RewriteRule cannot "see" parameters attached to a URL.


A preceding RewriteCond looking at QUERY_STRING is required.

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} main_page=contact_us
RewriteRule ^(index\.php)?$  http://www.other_domain.com/contact.html [R=301,NC,L]

[g1smd]

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
Redirect 301 /index.php?main_page=contact_us http://samedomainascart.com/samedomainblog/contact-island/

I know I must be doing something stupid.

You turn the mod_rewrite RewriteEngine "on" and then use the Redirect syntax. Redirect is not a part of mod_rewrite. Redirect cannot deal with URL requests that include parameters. RewriteRule with a preceding RewriteCond can do the job.

Try:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} main_page=contact_us
RewriteRule ^(index\.php)?$  http://samedomainascart.com/samedomainblog/contact-island/ [R=301,NC,L]