htaccess dynamic url redirect

Question

I have the following URL

https://example.com/expert-profile?id=john-doe&locale=en

I want it to be redirected to

https://example.com/expert/john-doe

I tried the following

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(([^&]*&)*)id=([^&]+)&?(.*)?$
RewriteRule ^expert-profile$ https://example.com/expert/%3?%1%4 [L,R=301]

And a couple of other solutions, nothing is working here. Can someone help me to go in the right direction?

Update:

This is my current .htaccess file

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /
  RewriteRule ^index\.html$ - [L]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
  RewriteRule . /index.html [L]

</IfModule>

Redirect 301 "/en/download-app" "/download-app"

What exactly was happening with the attempt that you've posted? It should result in a "valid" redirect (albeit with an additional query string). If nothing at all is happening then you're probably putting the directive in the wrong place. — MrWhite, Apr 04 '21 at 10:12

RavinderSingh13 · Accepted Answer · 2021-04-03T14:42:26.260

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Please keep your htaccess file in your root and have it in following way. Please clear your browser cache before testing your URLs.

RewriteEngine ON
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([^&]*)&locale=(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^([^-]*)-.*/?$ $1/%1-%2 [R=301,L]

OR in case you don't have Rules to handle non-existing files/directories then use following Rules set. Please make sure either use above OR following Rules set one at a time only.

RewriteEngine ON
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ - [L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([^&]*)&locale=(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^([^-]*)-.*/?$ $1/%1-%2 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(?:expert)/([^-]*)-(.*)$ $1-profile?id=$1&locale=$2 [NC,L]


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^ /index.html [L]

edited Apr 03 '21 at 14:42

answered Apr 03 '21 at 13:48

RavinderSingh13

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I tried and it is not working. I have update my question with the content of my current htaccss files, where am I going wrong here? – Ibrahim Azhar Armar Apr 03 '21 at 14:31
@IbrahimAzharArmar, Ok, could you please confirm that you are hitting `https://example.com/expert-profile?id=john-doe&locale=en` link in your browser? – RavinderSingh13 Apr 03 '21 at 14:32
I do confirm, I am hitting the right URL. The other rule of download-app I have is working perfectly fine – Ibrahim Azhar Armar Apr 03 '21 at 14:41
@IbrahimAzharArmar, if this is the url `https://example.com/expert-profile?id=john-doe&locale=en` you are hitting then please try my 2nd set of Rules once and let me know then(I added your shown rules also now in it), let me know how it goes. – RavinderSingh13 Apr 03 '21 at 14:42
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Let me check and get back in a while. Thank you. – Ibrahim Azhar Armar Apr 03 '21 at 14:57
@IbrahimAzharArmar, sure, let's hope for the BEST, cheers :) – RavinderSingh13 Apr 03 '21 at 14:57

Olaf Dietsche · Answer 2 · 2021-04-04T11:32:45.847

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If you want it rewritten, capture the name (.+) and insert it into the target $1

RewriteRule ^expert/(.+)$ /expert-profile?id=$1&locale=en [L]

And don't use flag R|redirect here, unless you really want a redirect.---

To redirect from expert-profile?id=john-doe to expert/john-doe, capture the id (.+?) from the query string and insert it in the substitution URL %1

RewriteCond &%{QUERY_STRING}& &id=(.+?)&
RewriteRule ^expert-profile$ /expert/%1 [R,L]

When everything works as it should, you may replace R with R=301 (permanent redirect).

Don't use both rules together. If you do, it will result in an endless redirect loop and finally give a "500 Internal Server Error".

Unrelated, but never test with R=301!

edited Apr 04 '21 at 11:32

answered Apr 03 '21 at 13:49

Olaf Dietsche

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@IbrahimAzharArmar What URL do you enter in your browser? Is it `https://example.com/expert/john-doe`, or is it `https://example.com/expert-profile?id=john-doe&locale=en`? – Olaf Dietsche Apr 03 '21 at 17:13
This is the url I tried https://example.com/expert-profile?id=john-doe&locale=en – Ibrahim Azhar Armar Apr 04 '21 at 07:39

MrWhite · Answer 3 · 2021-04-04T10:41:38.720

I have following URL
https://example.com/expert-profile?id=john-doe&locale=en
I want it to be redirected to
https://example.com/expert/john-doe

You would need to do something like the following at the top of your .htaccess file, before your existing directives (order is important):

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (?:^|&)id=([^&]+)
RewriteRule ^expert-profile$ /expert/%1 [QSD,R=301,L]

This captures the value of the id URL parameter (in the %1 backreference) regardless of where it appears in the query string and discards all other URL parameters. I'm assuming you don't specifically need to match locale=en?

Note that the regex subpattern ([^&]+) (the id value) only matches something, not nothing. If the URL parameter is empty (ie. id=&locale=en) then no redirect occurs.

The QSD flag is necessary to discard the original query string.

Test first with a 302 (temporary) redirect to avoid potential caching issues. And clear your browser cache before testing. Only use a 301 (permanent) redirect if this really is intended to be permanent.

To redirect the specific URL /expert-profile?id=<name>&locale=en to /expert/<name>, ie. the id parameter is at the start of the query string and is followed by locale=en only then you can (and should) be more specific in the condition. For example:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([^&]+)&locale=en$
RewriteRule ^expert-profile$ /expert/%1 [QSD,R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(([^&]*&)*)id=([^&]+)&?(.*)?$
RewriteRule ^expert-profile$ https://example.com/expert/%3?%1%4 [L,R=301]

This is close (providing you placed the rule at the top of the file), however, this tries to preserve the other URL parameters, ie. locale=en and whatever else, to create another query string - which you've not stated in your requirements.

Aside: The existing answers are assuming you are wanting to internally rewrite (URL rewrite) the request in the other direction, ie. from /expert/john-doe to /expert-profile?id=john-doe&locale=en. This is probably due to how questions of this nature are notoriously miswritten and this is often the real underlying intention. However, you've made no mention of this here and a URL of the form /expert-profile is not a valid endpoint - so it wouldn't really make sense to "rewrite" the URL in that direction. (?)

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