htaccess redirect

Hey Ray

Just wondering if you might have any insight as to why, on the .htacces file, this 301 works fine:

Redirect 301 /wp-config.php http://www.fbi.gov/

but this one doesnt:

Redirect 301 /article/avoptics-to-provide-optical-harnesses-for-general-dynamics-land-systemsuk-for-ares-variant-of-the-a /http://www.avoptics.com/article/avoptics-to-provide-optical-harnesses-for-general-dynamics-land-systemsuk-for-ares-variant-of-the-aj/

the rewrite that is being used on the latter is

RewriteRule ^article/(.*)$ news_s.php?perm=$1 [NC,L,QSA,T=application/x-httpd-php]

If you go to the page that is being redirected ( http://goo.gl/mOlsT5 ), it is adding ?perm=avoptics-to-provide-optical-harnesses-for-general-dynamics-land-systemsuk-for-ares-variant-of-the-a to the correct url

Have attached the php page itself

TIA

Jamie

Add [L] to the end of the htaccess redirect. That tells it to not keep processing rules lower down on the file.

Have tried putting [L] after a single line of redirects, after all the redirects and also at the end of the htaccess file and with all of them I get a 500 error

Can I see a copy of the .htaccess file?

sure, here you go

Move the redirect rule you want to have precedence above the one you don't want running.

Try moving lines 20-25 down below line 94

'fraid it hasnt made a difference :(

its still appending ?perm=permalink of the page being redirected in the uri

If you give me FTP access I'll try playing with it a bit, but I don't know why that wouldn't work... maybe create a mod rewrite rule to catch that instance first and then redirect to a new page that then triggers the 301 redirect.

thanks Ray thats really kind :) please dont waste too long on it as it isnt hugely important. The odd thing is that none of the redirects, after the first one, dont work.

details in PM and files attached

It looks like it will work if you use a RewriteRule for your 301 redirect instead of using the Redirect 301 syntax.

I've updated the first one. (remember your 301 redirect will be cached so you may need to clear your browser cache or use a different browser to see it work)