Thanks for the help Joshua. I didn't even think about the ?... As being
treated differently because it's a query string.
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From: jslive@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:jslive@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joshua
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Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 12:24 PM
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Subject: Re: mod_rewrite: how to discard tail of the URL?
On 9/4/07, Sennott, Mark <MSennott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I'm running RHEL4 update 3 with Apache/2.2.4
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> I want to redirect this:
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> http://foo.bar.com/search/search-events.front?keywords=&x=35&y=6
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> to this:
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> http://foo.bar.com/events/
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>
> I am using this rewrite rule:
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> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^foo.bar.com$ RewriteRule
> ^/search/search-events(.*) http://foo.bar.com/events/ [L]
>
>
> The problem is that the redirect returns this:
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> /events/?keywords=&x=35&y=6
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>
>
> How the heck do I discard the tail end of the URL??
Add a ? to the end of the substitution string. See:
http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/RewriteQueryString
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriterule
(the box: "Modifying the Query String").
Joshua.
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