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[DangerMouse]

Hello all,

Is there a way to write a conditional regex statement for a .htaccess file that strips only appends specific query paramaters to a new URL? i.e. redirect to x URL but append paramaters x y z from original URL, ignore all others.

Cheers,

Steve

[perkiset]

Yes, there is.

[DangerMouse]

  Any chance you show me an example please Perk?

I got a copy of the book you recommended on regex sometime ago - and great though it is I still hate them!

Steve

[vsloathe]

You capture the params with () and then backreference them. $1 is the string captured by the first (), $2 by the second, etc.

[perkiset]

DM post a munged up demo of the URL that you want to parse and let's have a go.

I was a bit ... um, relaxed last night and that's about as far as I could post on the matter

[DangerMouse]

I thought you were typing on one of those dodgy iPad keyboards Perk 

The idea is to redirect "http://www.test.com/test.htm?expand=1&utm_blah=X&utm_meh=Y" to "http://www.NEW.com/NEW?utm_blah=X&utm_meh=Y".

The UTM characters are essentially the Google Analytics tracking params and they're the only part of the query string I want to pass through to the new location.

I assume I can use rewriteCond and {QUERY_STRING}, plus the technique VS suggested to capture the params, but I'm not sure if I apply the RewriteCond whether that will prevent the Redirect executing if the condition isn't matched? In this case I'm not worried if there's a match, just if there is a need to add the params on.

Any suggestions appreciated.

Ta

DM

[Bompa]

I assume I can use rewriteCond and {QUERY_STRING}, plus the technique VS suggested to capture the params, but I'm not sure if I apply the RewriteCond whether that will prevent the Redirect executing if the condition isn't matched? In this case I'm not worried if there's a match, just if there is to add the params on.

Yah it would prevent the RewriteRule from redirecting if there were no matches.

One workaround would be to have an additional RewriteRule with no RewriteCond.

RewriteCond blah blah
RewriteRule blah yadda
#if match do above
#if no matches...
RewriteRule blah blah

Bompa