301 redirect from old to new URL without querystring and?

Question

I'm trying to redirect from my old URL structure to a new one where in my case some parameters are added.

The old structure looked like www.url.com/detail/111.html which is rewritten from www.url.com?action=detail&id=111 Now the structure changed for SEO reasons, new the URL for the site mentioned above is something like www.url.com/detail/111/cat/sub.html.

Now i want to redirect from www.url.com/detail/111.html to www.url.com/detail/111/cat/xyz.html

or from www.url.com/detail/112.hmtl to www.url.com/detail/112/cat/abc.html

The last part in the new URLs is variable!

If im doing it with: Redirect 301 /detail/112.html http://www.url.com/detail/112.cat/abc.html the querystring ist added to the new url. The browser shows: http://www.url.com/detail/112.cat/abc.html?action=detail&id=112

When I'm adding a ? to the new URL the ? is also shown in the browser.

QSD doesn't work because Apache 2.2 is running.

Has anyone an idea what to do to solve the problem?

Answer 1

You can put this code in your DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^detail/112\.html$ http://www.url.com/detail/112.cat/abc.htm? [L,NC,R]

Take note of ? at the end of target URL that is used to strip off any existing query string.