Redirect requested asp urls to php using htaccess

Question

We had a major site rework and now our new site is PHP based. We have some sites which have our old pages linked to them which were asp pages in the past. I want to create a htaccess rule but I have failed to get the desired result. If anyone can help it would be great.

The incoming pages will be in the format

http://www.mysite.com/tour.asp?id=1234

where 1234 is dynamic and can vary. I want to redirect this to the page viewer.php and change the query string variable id to tourid so the page requested should be

http://www.mysite.com/viewer/1234

I have another rule in htaccess which routs the above url to

http://www.mysite.com/viewer.php?tourid=1234 (this is working)

I need a rule by which the 1st url is routed to the 2nd one hoping it will open the 3rd url. How can i achieve this?

Since I am new to htaccess, can someone help me around how to achieve this routing? I want to clear here that the server now is php and I have to accomplish this using htaccess only. I followed other similar questions but found none that answers my query.

Jon · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-12 10:54:20Z

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UPADTE - I got it wrong first time, here's the corrected version.

# Match and capture the id value from the URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} id=([0-9]+)
# Redirect by passing the ID to the new site - the ? at the end removes existing query string
RewriteRule tour.asp http://www.mysite.com/viewer/%1? [R=301,L]

I've assumed the IDs are numeric only.

The source for this answer is at https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html - search for "Modifying the Query String" to find the info about removing the query string.

edited Jul 12, 2013 at 10:54

answered Jul 12, 2013 at 10:00

Jon

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LoneWOLFs Over a year ago

Hi thanks it works with a minor problem it adds the query string at the end like mysite.com/viewer/324?id=324

Jon Over a year ago

Try adding a ? just after the %1 - I'll update my answer now.

LoneWOLFs Over a year ago

Thanks worked like a charm... Though irrelevant to the question asked here these rules will apply to all the requests with the querystring id? If yes any way I can restrict that to those only on tour.asp?

Jon Over a year ago

@LoneWOLFs The RewriteRule will only redirect requests that match tour.asp, and the RewriteCond just before it makes sure that requests have the id query string too

LoneWOLFs Over a year ago

Oh Ok Thanks for the help. Accepted and upvoted. Specially for the querystring removal that was gr8

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