Problem with a redirect...

[ParLawGod]

Hi - I have done redirects before with no problems, but this one is throwing me for a loop.

My old forum was located at /forum and my new forum is located at /community - everything is redirecting properly, EXCEPT for people's profiles.

For example:

old profile is http://www.alftv.net/forum/profile.p...wprofile&u=121
new profile is http://www.alftv.net/community/membe...wprofile&u=121

I want to get /forum/profile.php..... to redirect to /community/memberlist.php.....

How would I get it to redirect???

Thank you in advance for any help, it is greatly appreciated.

[roger_d]

Originally Posted by ParLawGod

Hi - I have done redirects before with no problems, but this one is throwing me for a loop.

My old forum was located at /forum and my new forum is located at /community - everything is redirecting properly, EXCEPT for people's profiles.

For example:

old profile is http://www.alftv.net/forum/profile.p...wprofile&u=121
new profile is http://www.alftv.net/community/membe...wprofile&u=121

I want to get /forum/profile.php..... to redirect to /community/memberlist.php.....

How would I get it to redirect???

Thank you in advance for any help, it is greatly appreciated.

I would expect something like this to work (you didn't show your .htaccess entry)

redirect 301 /forum/profile.php http://www.alftv.net/community/memberlist.php

This should redirect url's with parameters I would think.

[ParLawGod]

That was the first thing I tried, but that did not work.

Here is the .htaaccess entry:

RewriteEngine on

RedirectMatch permanent ^/buyalfstuff.html$ http://www.alftv.net/merchandise.html

RedirectMatch permanent ^/alffiles.html$ http://www.alftv.net/alfdvd.html

RedirectMatch permanent ^/castinformation.html$ http://www.alftv.net/castandcrew.html

RedirectMatch permanent ^/crazymoments.html$ http://www.alftv.net/

RedirectMatch permanent ^/episodeguide.html$ http://www.alftv.net/episodeguides.html

RedirectMatch permanent ^/index2.html$ http://www.alftv.net/

RedirectMatch permanent ^/classifieds.html$ http://www.alftv.net/forum

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$
RewriteRule ^pictures/talkshow.html$ http://www.alftv.net/pictures/talkshow [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$
RewriteRule ^resume.doc/?$ http://jeremiaheis.com/resume.pdf [R=302,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$
RewriteRule ^alftv/forum/scrollingtopics2.php$ http://www.alftv.net/community/scrollingtopics2.php [R=302,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$
RewriteRule ^alftv/forum/?(.*)$ http://www.alftv.net/community/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$
RewriteRule ^alftv/pictures/talkshow.html$ http://www.alftv.net/pictures/talkshow [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$
RewriteRule ^alftv/pictures/projectalf.html$ http://www.alftv.net/pictures/projectalf [R=301,L]

ErrorDocument 404 /500.shtml

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$
RewriteRule ^alftv/episodeideas.html$ http://www.alftv.net/fanfiction.html [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$
RewriteRule ^alftv/pictures/sitcom.html$ http://www.alftv.net/pictures/sitcom [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$
RewriteRule ^alftv/pictures/alfcartoons.html$ http://www.alftv.net/pictures.html [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$
RewriteRule ^upcomingperformances.html$ http://www.jeremiaheis.com/schedule.html [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$
RewriteRule ^alftv/forum/profile.php$ http://www.alftv.net/community/memberlist.php [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$
RewriteRule ^alftv/community/profile.php$ http://www.alftv.net/community/memberlist.php [R=301,L]

[roger_d]

The simple redirect worked for me. (I built a forums and community subdirectory and it redirected with and without parameters.)

This also worked.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$
RewriteRule ^forum/profile.php http://www.alftv.net/community/memberlist.php [R=301,L]

If non of this works I would comment everything out and get the single redirect working, then uncomment one line at a time until you find the conflict.

Good luck,