.htaccess RewriteRule加上httpd.conf ScriptAliasMatch

Question

I have been adding 301 redirects successfully into our site .htaccess file, so that I can point url's from our old site to the correct url's on our new site, however I cannot get any redirects to work where the old url contains a ".pgm".

The ".pgm's" are RPG programs on our IBM iSeries server, and the url's on the new site are redirected in the httpd.conf file as follows:

ScriptAliasMatch (.*)\.pgm$ /QSYS.LIB/B2CRLIVE.LIB/$1.pgm

All of the url redirects for both vanity links and for url's from the old site are done in .htaccess, and these work fine, unless the old url contains ".pgm", in which case no matter what I try to do I end up with a 404 page.

An example of the old site url is:

http://mydomain/b2c/b2chome.pgm

The redirect I am using is:

RewriteRule b2chome /category/0/Product\ Range [R=301,L]

This works fine if the url is:

http://mydomain/b2c/b2chome

but once you add ".pgm" to any url it just results in a 404 page.

The ScriptAliasMatch works for pointing ".pgm's" to the correct program library, but the programs used on the old site don't exist in the library which is being pointed at. I don't think this is the problem though, because I think if it was I would get a script error of some kind.

Any ideas please?

Answer 1

I did find a solution, albeit not the one I was looking for. I added a redirect into the httpd.conf file, above the ScriptAliasMatch as follows:

Redirect 301 /b2c/b2chome.pgm http://www.domain.com/category.pgm

This at least works, even though I can now only place the non-pgm redirects in the .htaccess file. The .pgm redirects are at least limited in number, whereas I keep finding non-pgm links from the old site that are being referenced from somewhere, often old links on forums.