htaccess redirecting a rewritten rule

[JKG]

hey, i have a site which runs this as its rewrite, it works:

 

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^site.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.site.com$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.site\.com\/Sitename\-homepage" [R=301]

RewriteRule ^Sitename-([^/]*)$ /index.php?page=$1 [L]

 

i want to now add a redirect to this, this works but appends the orginal query string, how do i tell it not to do that?

 

Redirect 301 /Sitename-home http://www.site.com/Sitename-homepage

 

this rule redirects to:

http://www.site.com/Sitename-homepage?page=home

 

which isnt what i want. is there an append thats the opposite of [QSA]?

 

thanks.

[cags]

Trying adding a question mark to the end of the target location.

[JKG]

hi cags, thanks for your reply.

 

i tried it, and it does strip the url of the query string, but also displays a question mark at the end of the url, which is not ideal.

i tried just putting a space but it went back to what it was doing before.

 

any other ideas?

thanks!

[cags]

You could try using mod_rewrite (RewriteRule) rather than mod_alias (Redirect).

[JKG]

so using

 

RewriteCond old url

rewriterule new url

 

?

 

have you any idea why this is occurring, i have never come across it before...

[cags]

RewriteRule ^/?Sitename-home/?$ /Sitename-homepage [R=301]

[JKG]

hmm, that doesnt work at all....

 

thanks for your help Cags.

[cags]

Is the object to redirect requests for Sitename-home to Sitename-homepage before proceeding with the other rewrite rules? If so make sure you place the rule I suggested first and give it the L flag.

[JKG]

yes!

 

thanks for sticking with me cags, much appreciated

 

marked as solved.