Question
rewriting part of a url
Part of my URL structure changed can I rewrite part of a URL in htaccess instead of updating thousands of urls one-by-one by hand?
mywebsite . com /old/component/tag/colorado-sunday-meetings
to
mywebsite . com** /new/component**/tag/colorado-sunday-meetings
If it was this one url I could 301 it but it’s thousands of urls with that 1 change in the url structure.
I have been looking for examples online but I don’t know if any of these work and where I would modify if so.
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Removing the Query String
RewriteRule ^/url /url?
Adding to the Query String
Keep the existing query string using the Query String Append flag, but add var=val to the end.
RewriteRule ^/url /url?var=val [QSA]
Rewriting For Certain Query Strings
Rewrite URLs like http://askapache.com/url1?var=val to http://askapache.com/url2?var=val but don’t rewrite if val isn’t present.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} val
RewriteRule ^/url1 /url2
Modifying the Query String
Change any single instance of val in the query string to otherval when accessing /path. Note that %1 and %2 are back-references to the matched part of the regular expression in the previous RewriteCond.
RewriteCond %{QUERYSTRING} ^(.)val(.)$
RewriteRule /path /path?%1other_val%2
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