redirect based on url match

Question

I can't get a certain URL to redirect using mod rewrite. I am getting more basic rewriting happening so this is functioning as far as that goes so there is a problem with my URL.

I tried the string here and it showed the patter works..

http://regexpal.com/

testing the following

   RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^landed.at/component/jreviews/search-results/criteria:5/query:any/jr_country:sri-lanka/order:rdate$
   RewriteRule (.*) http://landed.at/itworked [L,R=301]

I would like in fact to pull the criteria:5 and jr_country:sri-lanka out to make my variables so my url would become

http://landed.at/tours/sri-lanka - tours if criteria:5 and sri-lanka from the jr_country

I'm getting no where fast with regex and why doesn't my basic search match happen? according to regexpal it should find the condition and do the rewrite?

Answer 1

You have included a full path including slashes, but you are only testing it against the HTTP_HOST which will be just landed.at . Did you mean to use REQUEST_URI ? (That would have to include the http:// also.)

I'd suggest this can probably be done more cleanly with plain old redirects. Don't drag the Swiss Army Chainsaw that is mod_rewrite into the game until you really need it. eg:

Redirect permanent /component/jreviews/search-results/criteria:5/query:any/jr_country:sri-lanka/order:rdate http://landed.at/itworked