302 htaccess redirect from old php page to new url

Question

Let say I have an old URL http://abc.com/x.php?a=xyz&b=jkl I need to redirect all the request to page x.php either having query string or not to http://xyz.com/x/

Below is the .htaccess file which is present in root of http://xyz.com

# Turn on URL rewriting
RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

# Protect application and system files from being viewed
RewriteRule ^(application|modules|system) - [F,L]

# Allow any files or directories that exist to be displayed directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond $0 !=server-status


# Rewrite all other URLs to index.php/URL
RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT,L]

Answer 1

In the htaccess file in your document root, add these rules:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?x.php$ /x/? [L,R=302]

Note that if you have rules to rewrite /x/ back to /x.php , these 2 rules will conflict and cause an internal loop. You can prevent the loop by including a:

RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} !200

right above the above RewriteRule .