simple htaccess RewriteRule or redirect doesnt work properly

Question

Trying to implement a simple .htaccess redirect none of these work, any idea how to fix ?

RewriteRule ^/en/?productsublayout=products_horizon http://www.example.com/en/  [R=302,L]

Redirect 301 /en/?productsublayout=products_horizon http://www.example.com/en/

Answer 1

Read the documentation of mod_rewrite , as your code has two common problems, both which already have been addressed in the documenation.

Per-directory Rewrites

[..]

• The removed prefix always ends with a slash, meaning the matching occurs against a string which never has a leading slash. Therefore, a Pattern with ^/ never matches in per-directory context.

and

If you wish to match against the hostname, port, or query string, use a RewriteCond with the %{HTTP_HOST} , %{SERVER_PORT} , or %{QUERY_STRING} variables respectively.

Besides this, keep in mind that the first argument of RewriteRule is a regex. The ? character has a special meaning in a regex.

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You have to correct it like this:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^productsublayout=products_horizon$
RewriteRule ^en/$ /en/? [R=302,L]

Alternatively, if you have a recent version of Apache, use the QSD flag instead of a trailing ? behind the rewrite part.