Launching a new website for a new client. Their old site has about 50 products and unfortunately, the old product names do not match up to the new URL pattern
Old URL Examples:
example.com/products.aspx?category=Foo&product=SuperLongNoBreakProductNameIDDescription
example.com/products.aspx?category=Foo&product=ProductNameDescription&var1=1293.123
example.com/products.aspx?category=Bar&product=ProductCategoryProdNameRandomNumbers
(The old URL's are sometimes hitting 150+ characters.)
New URL's:
example.com/products/category/actual-product-name
There's no set, recognizable pattern to go from the old product name to the new one. There is for the category.
I've tried simple mod_alias Redirects, but understand that I need a RewriteRule instead. But I'm having problems. All I need is a 1-to-1 redirect for each of these 50 URL's. I thought I could do something like:
RewriteRule ^/products.aspx?category=Foo&product=ProductName
/products/category/new-product-name/ [R=301,NC]
But that isn't working. I know this should be simple, but I am stuck. Any ideas?
Use the pattern below for the rest of your redirect urls. Note that you escape special characters e.g. ? , . and space by adding a \ in front of them
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /products\.aspx\?category=Foo&product=SuperLongNoBreakProductNameIDDescription [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /products/category/new-product-name/ [R=301,NC]