Title: htaccess Redirect Issue
Last modified: August 31, 2016
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# htaccess Redirect Issue
* [DevPete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devpete/)
* (@devpete)
* [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-redirect-issue-1/)
* Hi I have scoured the forums for some answers but I have not found any, hence
me starting a new thread.
I am working on a new site for a client and I have
installed WordPress locally on my workstation running Win 7 Pro under WAMP and
* I am just adding some redirects to the htaccess file to redirect the old page
urls to the equivalent new WordPress pages.
The old site I built for my client
uses GET variables to load pages and for navigation, so the URL’s look like the
example below. [http://www.somesite.co.uk/index.php?page=index](http://www.somesite.co.uk/index.php?page=index)
* You can also access the homepage using these URL’s as well.
[http://www.somesite.co.uk/index.php](http://www.somesite.co.uk/index.php)
[http://www.somesite.co.uk/](http://www.somesite.co.uk/) The new site has basically
the same structure it just uses clean URL’s so I just want to deal with the old
URL’s that contain GET values which Google has indexed and cached, so people
end up in the right place if they click links in search results during the first
month after launch, once Google has crawled indexed and cached the new pages
I can remove the redirects.
* So far I have set up a few redirect rules locally to redirect the URL’s of the
old site pages to the new site pages and they work OK, I paste the URL into the
address bar hit enter and WordPress does the right thing and I end up on the
right page as expected.
The only problem is that the GET name, value pair are
added to the end of the URL.
* So for example when I enter the old URL below
[http://localhost/new-site.co.uk/about/index.php?page=index](http://localhost/new-site.co.uk/about/index.php?page=index)
After redirecting the URL looks like the example below [http://localhost/new-site.co.uk/about/?page=index](http://localhost/new-site.co.uk/about/?page=index)
I get to the righ page, but the URL should look like the example below. [http://localhost/new-site.co.uk/about/](http://localhost/new-site.co.uk/about/)
* I have placed the redirect rules at the top of the htaccess files above the WordPress
rewrite rules here is an example.
* # BEGIN Custom Redirects
Redirect 301 /about/index.php?page=index [http://localhost/new-site.co.uk/about/](http://localhost/new-site.co.uk/about/)#
BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /andrews-
limousines.co.uk/ RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-
f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /andrews-limousines.co.uk/
index.php [L]
* # END WordPress
* There are no spaces at the begining of the file just a comment to describe the
purpose of the rules and the redirect rules.
* It would be great to get this working properly, any advice how to resolve this
issue will be much appreciated.
* Likkle More
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* [Bob Cristello](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gntmidnight/)
* (@gntmidnight)
* [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-redirect-issue-1/#post-7004125)
* You can do all of this in .htaccess, that is true. There are also many plugins
that handle this for you either at the post/page level or as an interface that
let’s you have redirects for your pages. We use a plugin like this in several
of our client websites when using the google webmaster fetch to show us indexed
pages that are no longer on a specific site and to set up a specific redirect.
Here are some examples of these plugins:
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/quick-pagepost-redirect-plugin/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/quick-pagepost-redirect-plugin/)
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-301-redirects/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-301-redirects/)
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/)
* I do not endorse any of these products and there are many others that you can
sort though to find exactly which one will meet your needs.
* Thread Starter [DevPete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devpete/)
* (@devpete)
* [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-redirect-issue-1/#post-7004148)
* Hi Bob,
Thanks for the reply and plugin links, I looked at a few before I started
but I haven’t tried any yet, I want to keep the number of plugins to a minimum.
* I have a copy of the site set up on a spare domain and hosting package I use
for this sort of thing at hostdev.co.uk
* So I edited the htaccess file and added a couple of redirect rules and uploaded
it to the web server.
* Redirect 301 /about/index.php [http://hostdev.co.uk/about/](http://hostdev.co.uk/about/)
Redirect 301 /about/index.php?page=index [http://hostdev.co.uk/about/](http://hostdev.co.uk/about/)#
BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule
^index\.php$ – [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-
d RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
* # END WordPress
* And then tested the rules using the URL’s below
* [http://hostdev.co.uk/about/index.php](http://hostdev.co.uk/about/index.php)
[http://hostdev.co.uk/about/index.php?page=index](http://hostdev.co.uk/about/index.php?page=index)
* The first one works fine, but when I use the second URL I get to the right page,
but the GET name value pair are appended to the end of the URL in the browser
address bar.
* I though maybe it was not working properly because I was testing locally under
WAMP where the address starts with localhost, this is due to the way I have WAMP
set up without editing my hosts file.
* After doing some more research online it looks like I need to be rewiting the
URL’s that contain GET values somehow, I have seen a few examples on Stack Overflow,
but I could not make sense of them.
* Ideally I would like to overstand this properly so I can implement the redirects
this way as I migrate clients onto WordPress in the future.
* Hopefully someone will be able to provide some enlightenment on the subject.
* Likkle More
* [Bob Cristello](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gntmidnight/)
* (@gntmidnight)
* [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-redirect-issue-1/#post-7004156)
* If you are working on WAMP you need to make sure you have the mod_rewrite enabled.
* Enable mod_rewrite in WAMP:
[http://forum.wampserver.com/read.php?2,30758,30758](http://forum.wampserver.com/read.php?2,30758,30758)
* Thread Starter [DevPete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devpete/)
* (@devpete)
* [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-redirect-issue-1/#post-7004163)
* Yeah man got that covered.
* I enabled mod_rewrite etc a while ago when I was interfering with htaccess to
see if I could remove the GET variable name from the URL on the static PHP sites
I built to pretty up the URL’s.
* I gave up after a while I was struggling with the regex and I now realise I should
have entered the pretty URL in the address bar not the GET value URL’s, to test
the rewrites.
* I was a bumboclatt puttin the cart before the horse.
* Live an grow, live an learn…
* Likkle More
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* Last activity: [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-redirect-issue-1/#post-7004163)
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