Apache Rewrite Trailing Slash

Question

I am trying to use the following:

Redirect 301 /example/cookies http://test.butterscotch.co.uk/cookies?ref=test

Which ends up redirect to:

http://test.butterscotch.co.uk/cookies?ref=testexample/cookies

However if I do:

Redirect 301 /example/cookies/ http://test.butterscotch.co.uk/cookies?ref=test

And I try the URL:

http://oldhost.com/example/cookies/ (with the trailing slash)

it redirects to the new url correctly.

I need to be able to use the Redirect so it doesn't have to have the trailing slash.

Answer 1

Not sure what's causing your first issue, but the Redirect directive is probably not what you want when you're working with a query string in the redirect target. The `Redirect directive kind of links two URL paths together, so if I have a rule like:

Redirect /abc /xyz

and I go to /abc/ , I'll obviously get redirected to /xyz/ , and if I go to /abc/def/g I'll get redirected to /xyz/def/g . When I have a query string in the mix:

Redirect /abc /xyz?i=123

and I go to /abc/def/g , I'll end up getting redirected to /xyz?i123/def/g , which obviously isn't what I want.

Try using RedirectMatch instead:

RedirectMatch 301 /example/cookies/?$ http://test.butterscotch.co.uk/cookies?ref=test

or using mod_rewrite:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^example/cookies/?$ http://test.butterscotch.co.uk/cookies?ref=test [L,QSA,R=301]