Redirect issue

[shags38]

v1.5.7b

I have a need to redirect a page, old_domain/index.php?main_page=contact_us to new_domain/index.php?main_page=contact_us , however when doing so using cPanel it redirects (via .htaccess) to new_domain/index.php. This happens regardless of what the page may be that includes index.php? in the url ... e.g.
index.php?main_page=products_new or /index.php?main_page=gv_faq.

Is there another method I use to can redirect these pages without using cPanel and/or .htaccess?

cheers, Mike

[mprough]

In the old site's htaccess try something like this

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (w*)old_domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://new_domain.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

~Melanie

[swguy]

This will redirect the whole site, which may not be what the OP wants - if you ONLY want this one page to be redirected, how about just putting a redirect inside

includes/modules/pages/contact_us/header_php.php

on old_site?

[mprough]

In that case a query string redirect in the htaccess on the old domain

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} contact_us
RewriteRule (.*) https://new_domain.com/index.php?main_page=contact_us [R=301,L,NE]

[shags38]

This will redirect the whole site, which may not be what the OP wants - if you ONLY want this one page to be redirected, how about just putting a redirect inside

includes/modules/pages/contact_us/header_php.php

on old_site?

many thanks for your response Scott - I think this approach is best - there is a definite issue with redirects in cPanel in that it totally ignores any code after /index.php (as per the examples above) nad hence any attempt to redirect a page will redirect the whole site - my host said that it may be to do with security albeit no changes to permissions / modsec would fix it?

cheers, Mike

[shags38]

In that case a query string redirect in the htaccess on the old domain

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} contact_us
RewriteRule (.*) https://new_domain.com/index.php?main_page=contact_us [R=301,L,NE]

Hi Melanie, many thanks for your response - please refer to my reply to 'swguy' regarding the inherent issue with cPanel. Where only an individual page needs to be redirected I think a php redirect in the appropriate header will be the better approach. I once had a quantity of redirects from one site to another in place in cPanel and then added a redirect to a page with /index.php?main_page=contact_us [example] and it automatically obviated all the other redirects because it redirect the whole site which wasn't what I wanted.

thanks again
cheers, Mike

[mprough]

Hi Melanie, many thanks for your response - please refer to my reply to 'swguy' regarding the inherent issue with cPanel. Where only an individual page needs to be redirected I think a php redirect in the appropriate header will be the better approach. I once had a quantity of redirects from one site to another in place in cPanel and then added a redirect to a page with /index.php?main_page=contact_us [example] and it automatically obviated all the other redirects because it redirect the whole site which wasn't what I wanted.

thanks again
cheers, Mike

Hi Mike,

The redirect I provided should correctly land. It's not cPanel, it's the syntax that matters. The cPanel tool is really not a great way to edit your htaccess, it can make issues in the syntax.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} contact_us
RewriteRule (.*) https://new_domain.com/index.php?main_page=contact_us [R=301,L,NE]

~Melanie

[Shop Suey]

I don't want to hijack this thread but it seems the place to ask my question.
Because of adding a new language I created new ezPages (I think I had to do so) which got a new ID.
I have some good running ezPages posts and visitors just get an error (of course).
I spent some hours about that now so I decided to use the board search and found this thread.
What do you think could be the proper way to make zen cart redirects via htaccess?
Simple Redirect 301 obviously don't work.

Here's the old url: https://www.roller-aus-blech.de/inde...age=page&id=85
Here's the new url: https://www.roller-aus-blech.de/inde...ge=page&id=100

I meanwhile am going to take the following code for testing:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} contact_us
RewriteRule (.*) https://new_domain.com/index.php?main_page=contact_us [R=301,L,NE]

[mprough]

I don't want to hijack this thread but it seems the place to ask my question.
Because of adding a new language I created new ezPages (I think I had to do so) which got a new ID.
I have some good running ezPages posts and visitors just get an error (of course).
I spent some hours about that now so I decided to use the board search and found this thread.
What do you think could be the proper way to make zen cart redirects via htaccess?
Simple Redirect 301 obviously don't work.

Here's the old url: https://www.roller-aus-blech.de/inde...age=page&id=85
Here's the new url: https://www.roller-aus-blech.de/inde...ge=page&id=100

I meanwhile am going to take the following code for testing:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} contact_us
RewriteRule (.*) https://new_domain.com/index.php?main_page=contact_us [R=301,L,NE]

That is a tough one because the number is the only unique part of the link... and the number 85 is likely used elsewhere in other links.

maybe

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} page&id=85
RewriteRule (.*) https://www.roller-aus-blech.de/index.php?main_page=page&id=100 [R=301,L,NE]

~Melanie

[Shop Suey]

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