Shorten URL

[AaronM]

I have ALMOST got my short links setup and my old links 301d to the new short link BUT.... Im stuck... again.

Trying to get this

ht tp://mywebsite.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=HTE&Product_Co de=sample&Category_Code=SampleCat

to look like this

ht tp://mywebsite.com/PROD/sample.htm


instead I get this

ht tp://mywebsite.com/PROD/sample&Category_Code=SampleCat.htm


I'm using this

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^Screen=PROD&Product_Code=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mywebsite.com/PROD/%1.htm? [R=301,L]


RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^Screen=PROD&Store_Code=HTE&Product_Code=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mywebsite.com/PROD/%1.htm? [R=301,L]


What do I need to strip that category off the end?

Thank you so much in advance!

[ILoveHostasaurus]

Re: Shorten URL

Change it to this:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^Screen=PROD&Product_Code=(.*)&
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mywebsite.com/PROD/%1.htm? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^Screen=PROD&Product_Code=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mywebsite.com/PROD/%1.htm? [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^Screen=PROD&Store_Code=HTE&Product_Code=(.*)&
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mywebsite.com/PROD/%1.htm? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^Screen=PROD&Store_Code=HTE&Product_Code=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mywebsite.com/PROD/%1.htm? [R=301,L]

The issue you're having is that the .* followed by $ means capture everything after Product_Code= and use that as the product code, so it's using "sample&Category_Code=SampleCat" as your product code. Changing it to ampersand will get only what you want because it's only going to match up to the ampersand. Duplicating what you already had right after that will ensure that if you do have some URL's sitting out there that actually do end with the code, that they still redirect too.

[AaronM]

Re: Shorten URL

Thank you so much David! That worked perfectly!