具有POST数据的多个URL重定向htaccess

Question

In my project for REST API older version I have multiple setups. In newer version I have the common setup code instead of multiple setups.

I have to write htaccess rule to redirect old URL's into new version URL. All the requests are POST request so I have to redirect without affecting the POST data.

Problem

Old Setup URL

http://example.com/client1/a_report/index.php/rest_server/index http://example.com/client2/a_report/index.php/rest_server/index

I want these URL's need to be redirected to the latest one

http://example.com/commonsetup/index.php/rest_server/index

I tried this following code it is not working as expected

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^client1/a_report(.*) http://example.com/commonsetup/$1 [NC,L,P]
RewriteRule ^client2/a_report(.*) http://example.com/commonsetup/$1 [NC,L,P]

This code is working but it's giving the Wrong URL. In this case the POST will becomes GET. This also I need to fix

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/client1/
RewriteRule (.*) /commonsetup/$1 [R=301,L]

The result I got in the browser

Not Found The requested URL /commonsetup/client1/a_report/index.php/rest_server/index was not found on this server.

The required output is

/commonsetup/index.php/rest_server/index

Please help me to achieve this. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

As I commented above POST data will be lost if doing an external redirect.

You have 3 options to preserve POST data:

1. Don't do redirect and do an internal rewrite only
2. Enable mod_proxy and use P flag for proxying the request
3. Write server side code eg using curl and pass-on POST data to destination

Try this rule for internal rewrite in your DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^(?:client2|client1)/a_report/(.+)$ /commonsetup/$1 [NC,L]