I've migrated from another platform and I'd like to redirect the profile URL's to the new ones...
This was the old URL:
www.example.com/profile.php?ID=usersprofile&lang=ru
All I need/want to carry to the new URL is the value in ID= so like this:
www.example.com/usersprofile
I've tried various examples already but none actually work, since the example are not quite the same as what I'm looking for...
Any suggestion?
An easy way is create a new file 'profile.php' (make sure to backup the old one) and do the following:
- The 'id' value is been passed to you file by GET, so you gonna get it and store in a variable.
- With the ID you'll need to access your database and see which user this ID is related and get it's username so you'll be able to construct the url (example.com/username)
- In your .htaccess you will put something like this: RewriteRule ^(\d+)*$ ./users/$1
Another good way is use the current Oxwall url for users: yoursite.com/users/username
I that case, I'll not need to add anything in htaccess.
I did it by head and don't tested so I may missed or been mistake in something
Good Luck :D
So not sure what the rewrite rule would be just for that. I think making a profile.php is a little overkill, since I don't need to query the DB at all, simply re-direct.
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /profile.php?ID=$1 [L]
However, if I put this in my .htaccess file the whole site craps out...
Apache logs this:
Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/profile\.php
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /profile.php?ID=$1 [L]
But still... I get the server error...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/profile\.php$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^ID=(.*)&lang=(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.org/%1? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/profile\.php$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^ID=(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.org/%1? [R=301,L]
