I have a bit of a 301 puzzle here that I can't quite solve, and maybe
someone can help me out.
I have 3 pages:
page 1= /merchant.php?i=1
page 2= /merchant.php?i=1&j=2
page 3= /merchant.php?=1&j=2
I want to us a combination of url-rewriting and 301 redirects so they so a
request to the old page url's are forwarded to:
page 1= /merchantname
page 2= /merchantnameproductname1
page 3= /merchantnameproductname2
and when these new url's are reached they actually are generated behind the
scenes by the old urls.
Now I thought I had it with the following code in my Apache config:
RewriteRule ^/merchantnameproductname2 /merchant\.php\?i\=1\&j\=2
[PT,QSA,NS,NE]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)merchant\.php(.*)$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^i\=1\&j\=2$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /merchantnameproductname2? [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^/merchantnameproductname1 /merchant\.php\?i\=1\&j\=1
[PT,QSA,NS,NE]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)merchant\.php(.*)$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^i\=1\&j\=1$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /merchantnameproductname1? [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^/merchantname /merchant\.php\?i\=66 [PT,QSA,NS,NE]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)merchant\.php(.*)$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^i\=1$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /merchantname? [R=301,L]
Now what happens is that the rewrite and 301 redirect works for page1, but
page2 and page3 the 301 works and I get directed to the correct new page
url, but the underlying rewrite always creates the content for page2, never
page3
I am a bit stuck.. can anyone see the flaw?
Thanks.
