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Jordi Castilla
Asked: 2020-05-11 02:45:14 +0800 CST 2020-05-11 02:45:14 +0800 CST

Redirect multiple get requests in a single line or function

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I have finished a website and I am creating the necessary 301 redirects in the .htaccess.

I have one of the old web sitemaps that has 100+ requests of the type:

?menu=nombre-del-plato

On the new web there are no similar requests and they should all be redirected to, say,http://mirestaurante.com/menu

Is there a way to avoid these 100+ same lines in the .httacces?:

Instead of:

Redirect 301 /?menu=nombre-del-plato1 http://mirestaurante.com/menu
Redirect 301 /?menu=nombre-del-plato2 http://mirestaurante.com/menu
Redirect 301 /?menu=nombre-del-plato3 http://mirestaurante.com/menu
Redirect 301 /?menu=nombre-del-plato4 http://mirestaurante.com/menu

Make a line or function similar to:

Redirect 301 ?menu* http://mirestaurante.com/menu

EDIT: these requests are in two languages

Redirect 301 /?menu=nombre-del-plato3 http://mirestaurante.com/menu
Redirect 301 /ca/?menu=nombre-del-plato3 http://mirestaurante.com/ca/menu
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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    It seems that all the URLs you want to redirect have one thing in common: they are all of type ?menu=nombre-del-plato, so in the query string is the string ?menu=. So what you could do is create a single rule in .htaccess that redirects if that string is found.

    The rule would look like this:

    # Si la solicitud incluye un query string con el menú, entonces redirecciona al menú
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} menu=
RewriteRule . http://mirestaurante.com/menu? [L,R=301]

    This permanently redirects (by the R=301 flag) all the URLs that contain ?menu=in the query string to the URL http://mirestaurante.com/, eliminating the URL parameters (by the ?end of the URL to which it is redirected), and is the last rule to be checked (by flag L).

    Now, if you want it to redirect differently depending on the language, the easiest thing to do would be to have two rules (although I'm sure they could be combined into one):

    # Si la solicitud incluye un query string con el menú y la cadena /ca/ en la URI
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} menu=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /ca/
# Entonces redirecciona al menú en catalán
RewriteRule . http://mirestaurante.com/ca/menu? [L,R=301]

# Si la solicitud incluye un query string con el menú, entonces redirecciona al menú
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} menu=
RewriteRule . http://mirestaurante.com/menu? [L,R=301]

    It's important that you put the most specific rule first, because if you put the most generic one first, then the second rule will never be reached.

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