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I've seen questions regarding redirecting a URL with a query string to a new URL that doesn't contain a query string.

Unfortunately I have to do this in reverse, my knowledge of redirecting in Apache isn't good, and I can't find any information about doing this.

So for example I need to redirect something like:

/news/news-item

to:

/news?item=news-item

The new URL structure is obviously not ideal, but this is something that is out of my control.

I've tried:

RedirectMatch 301 /news/news-item http://www.example.com/news?item=news-item

But obviously this doesn't work.

From what I understand I need to use RewriteRule, can somebody point me in the right direction?

Sean
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I'm probably to late with my answer, but this is how I would have done it:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^news/(.*) /news?item=$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

I would also use RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f and RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d. In case a file or a directory with the specified name exists, it would not procede with the rewrite rule below.

Simon Schärer
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I managed to figure this out after a bit of research.

I'm not sure if this is 'ideal' way of doing this, but it seems to work well from my perspective.

Instead of using a Redirect of a RedirectMatch it's possible to achieve this using RewriteRule, something like:

RewriteRule ^news/?(.*) http://example.com/?posts=list [R=301,L]

This will redirect any request to news or news/x (where x could be anything) to:

http://example.com/?posts=list

I should have made it clearer in my initial question that the query string didn't need to be generated using part of the old URL, if you need to do this I think you'll need to look into something like this:

How to redirect URLs based on query string?

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