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1. Bike
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi WP team,

   I have recently converted a PixelPost-based photoblog to WP3.0, to take advantage of the WP functionalities.

   However, I cannot seem to create a seemingly easy 301 rewrite to divert all old traffic, not sure if I made mistakes of that the internal rewrite rules of WP block this?

   I searched, but none of the similar threads on the forum have ever been answered.
   How would I rewrite from :

   domain.com/?showimage=xx
   to
   domain.com/?p=xx

   the xx is the variable page ID/number which is the same for both the old as well as the new system.

   Any help is much appreciated!
   Many thanks, Bike

2. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #

   The problem being its not a wordpress question :)

   This URL should help you.

   http://www.chilipepperdesign.com/2009/02/01/htaccess-query-string-301s

3. Bike
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks Ipstenu; as long as WP needs .htaccess, then I think this is a WP question :)
   Besides, several people have tried to convert from PixelPost (or other CMS) to Wp, but are worried about whether their old pages 'will work', so I think this is definitely WP-worthy.

   I tried several options, but none worked. Anybody knows what is wrong?

   RewriteRule ^/\?showimage=([0-9]+)/?$ /\?p=$1 [R]
   RewriteRule ^showimage /p [R]

   RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} showimage=(.*)
   RewriteRule ^showimage(.*) /?p=%1 [R]

   Thanks, Bike

4. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I would try...

   RewriteRule ^/\?showimage=(.*) http://domain.com/\?p=$1 [R]

   Maybe. Juggling the ? Is a pain.

   Also, why I say it's not a wordpress question is that WP works fine without this code. This is generic web admin stuff, not wordpress specific.

5. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Taking a second look at what I have on my servers...
   

   RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^showimage=([0-9]*)$
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mydomain.site/?p=%1 [R=301,L]

   The catch is telling the server that it's looking for a query string, which is NOT the same as escaping the ? character.

   This is all .htaccess mastery, though :)

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