Redirecting /index.php?country=a to /a/ by htaccess

Question

To redirect

www.example.com/index.php?country=a

to

www.example.com/a/

tried:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} index.php?country=a [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} index.php?country=a
RewriteRule ^ http://www.example.com/a/? [L,R=301]

Not works.

Notes:

1) This code is also a bad idea if a to be dynamic (60 countries in my list).

2) Anything after index.php?country=a e.g: index.php?country=a&p=d&xx=k to be removed.

Do you maybe want to do the opposite redirection? Why would you redirect "standard" url type to SEO type? — MilanG, Apr 06 '16 at 07:18
Probably you missing my second note. I'm not looking for clean URLs. Trying to delete bunch of disabled URLs. — , Apr 06 '16 at 07:26
You could also just do this in the PHP application. Instead of returning the (old) page, just return a `header('Location: http://example.com/country');` — aross, Apr 06 '16 at 08:05

Amit Verma · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-06T07:59:51.220

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The variable %{QUERY_STRING} represents the query part (the part after the ?) of an url,

so You can not match the uri index.php in the pattern, try:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^country=([^&]+)(?:&(.*))?$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://www.example.com/%1/? [L,R=301]

Or

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php\?country=([^&]+)
RewriteRule ^ http://www.example.com/%1/? [L,R=301]

Clear your browser's cache before testing these rules.

edited Apr 06 '16 at 07:59

answered Apr 06 '16 at 07:27

Amit Verma

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So any way to match 'index.php'? – Apr 06 '16 at 07:31
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see the 2nd solution – Amit Verma Apr 06 '16 at 07:32
Thanks but did you look the notes in question? 'a' is dynamic here – Apr 06 '16 at 07:48
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@smith Yes, i did! do you want to redirect the incomming url of the form **/index.php?country=foo** to **/foo/** ? – Amit Verma Apr 06 '16 at 07:52

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 06 '16 at 07:36

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RewriteRule ^/([a-zA-Z]+) index.php?country=$1 [NC,L]

It will help you to to have a clean URL from any value, not only 'a'

answered Apr 06 '16 at 07:36

MoHo

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it also ignore other values after country – MoHo Apr 06 '16 at 07:37
Any rewrite condition? – Apr 06 '16 at 07:51

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 06 '16 at 08:04

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RewriteRule ^a$ index.php?country=a [NC,L]

this one for sure works... Make sure the index.php?country=a is not in any sub-directory

answered Apr 06 '16 at 08:04

MoHo

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Redirecting /index.php?country=a to /a/ by htaccess

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