Base url redirects with a p= querystring

  • latro666

    (@latro666)


    12 years, 7 months ago

    Hi guys

    This is driving me somewhat mad, setting a site live and I am adding in all the 301 redirects but hit on a problem.

    The old site uses this structure:
    http://thedomain.com/?Section=page&p=/areasofexpertise/
    etc…

    The issue is nothing I do can stop this from loading the page as index.php as if it were the blog homepage.

    I have tried:
    redirection plugin – no joy so disabled.
    .htaccess:

    Redirect 301 /?Section=page&p=/areasofexpertise/ http://www.thedomain.com/whatever

RewriteEngine On
...

    Also tried intercepting it as a rewrite rule but i 500’d it as i think i got the regular expression syntax wrong so simply tried a normal rewrite and that does not work either e.g.

    RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/whoweare/$ http://www.thedomain.com/whatever [R=301,L]
RewriteBase /
...

    Any ideas?

    I even encoded my own redirecter in 404.php but ofc in this case WP is not 404’ing and 1. its query string data on the root and 2. it has p= a querystring WP uses (this is why blog index is loading’

    half a mind just to give up and let their SEO die 😀

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  • Thread Starter latro666

    (@latro666)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    Ok so I worked out an out of the box (dodgy) solution to this for future searchers.

    First off I intercepted any ?p= in htaccess and rewrite as a server 404. We are using url rewriting so p= should never come up (this is dodgy as hell but meh)

    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} /?p=(\d*)
RewriteRule ^$ *? [R=404,L]

    I then in htaccess reset which file the server looks to for 404s:

    ErrorDocument 404 /wp-content/x-redirector.php

    I created this file and setup my own key value redirection script:

    <?php
	$url = $_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL'];
	$qs = $_SERVER['REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING'];

	if($qs != ''){
		$url = $url . "?" . $qs;
	}

	//page in wordpress with page not found msg
	$endurl = '/page-not-found';

	//array of redirects
	$redirects = array();
	$redirects['/?Section=page&p=/areasofexpertise'] = '/whatever/';	

	foreach($redirects as $key => $value){
		if($key == $url ||  $key . '/' == $url){
			$endurl = $value;
		}
	}

	Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
	Header( "Location: $endurl" );
?>

    Cycles the redirects and if it gets a hit it changes the forwarding url if it does not find a match then it goes to /page-not-found which is a WordPress page.

    not very efficient or elegant but it works 😀

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