2 variable redirection issue

[siwelis]

Hello!

 

I've been working on this .htaccess file for two days, unfortunately.

 

Options +Indexes

Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^a/(.*)/?req=read&article_title=(.*)$ /a/$1/$2.html [R]

RewriteRule ^cgi-bin/$ http://example.com/ [R]

RewriteRule ^cgi-sys/scgiwrap/$ http://example.com/ [R]

RewriteRule ^a/(.*)/(.*)\.html$ /a/$1/?req=go&name=$2

ErrorDocument 404 http://example.com/notfound.php

 

I've got it all figured out except the redirecting in red. It's been a major pain in the butt. Nothing happens at all with that red code in there!

 

I have one piece of code (in blue) to rewrite the url, and another (red) to redirect the old version to the new version.

 

Do you have any idea what I'm doing wrong? Thank you so much!

[corbin]

What exactly are you trying to do?

[siwelis]

I'm sorry, I'm trying to redirect all urls like this

 

example.com/a/Arts/?req=read&article_title=MonaLisa to example.com/a/Arts/MonaLisa.html

 

but i need it to be it to redirect other categories too...

example.com/a/News/?req=read&article_title=OsamaVSObamaBoxingMatch to example.com/a/News/OsamaVSObamaBoxingMatch.html

 

Thank you for your response!

[corbin]

Try changing:

 

RewriteRule ^a/(.*)/?req=read&article_title=(.*)$ /a/$1/$2.html [R]

 

 

To

 

RewriteRule ^a/(.*)/\?req=read&article_title=(.*)$ /a/$1/$2.html [R]

 

 

Although I would be surprised if that were the problem.

[siwelis]

I tried it and you were right that it didn't change anything.

 

Funny... I just realized a new appreciation for error messages. lol. I'll keep researching and if I find anything I'll post the answer I find here. If you think of anything please let me know. Thank you for looking into this already.