Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Programming Discussion : mod_rewrite weirdness

[JPortal]

mod_rewrite is a great tool but the regex syntax is bizarre.

Basically, I'm moving to a new site and I need to redirect users to new pages. If someone goes to: "index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=854"
I need to redirect them to "/bb/viewtopic.php?t=854"

This is my code thus far:

RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php\?(.*)$ /bb

This is NOT WORKING! Obviously it's a bit bare, but if you go to "index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=854"
it does not get redirected. As soon as I remove that last question mark (and the backslash) it starts redirecting again... what am I doing wrong? Is there some weird way to escape question marks?

[Koobi]

I don't remember the exact sentence for mod_rewrite but here's the regex to capture the numerical values for _GET['t']

index\.php\?name=[a-zA-Z]+&file=[a-zA-Z]+&t=([0-9]+)

\\1 hold the number so you could use that for the redirecting.

Hope it helps

[maxymizer]

Your regexp in RewriteRule is invalid.
To redirect from/bb/viewtopic.php?t=854 to index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=854 use the following:

RewriteRule ^/bb/viewtopic&t=([0-9]+)$ /index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=$1 [L]