301 Redirect adding incorrect extra segments to a url
- by Pentland_web
I need to 301 redirect one segment of a url to a new version of it.
My aim is redirect
www.domain.co.uk/farm/whatever/
to
www.domain.co.uk/farm_cottages/whatever/
The rule I am using to do this is:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/farm/ /farm_cottages/
However for some reason it partially works but appends ?/farm/ after farm_cottages/ in the final url ie.
www.domain.co.uk/farm_cottages/?/farm/whatever/
Here is my entire rewrite rule set as I believe one of the rewrite rules could be interfering with the redirect rule.
#redirect /farm/ to /farm_cottages/
RedirectMatch 301 ^/farm/ /farm_cottages/
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
# no WWW to WWW
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.domain.co.uk$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]
# Force trailing slash on URLs
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.co.uk/$1/ [L,R=301]
#Remove index.php
RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[^/]*/index\.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^index\.php(.+) $1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>
The site is built in Expressionengine and so the segments of url do not represent actual folders - I don't think this should matter though.
Any ideas would be much appreciated! Thanks
