Challenge: Mod Rewrite : Changin all link _ to -

[djstreet]

I've tried for a month, numerous items, different strings, PHP, etc. nothing, NOTHING! I need help please PLEASE... The bots keep wanting to look at my forums old _ in the link and not the new -.




Context:

I switch my forum from underscores to hyphens. Trouble is, I can't get the htaccess to 301 redirect so it now looks like I have duplicate content.

Here's what I've done:

Redirect 301 /forum/Buy_Sell_Trade_Forums_C15/ http://www.discusswireless.com/forum...de-Forums-C15/

multiplied by all the different categories I have. This worked, however, it only worked for that directory and did not apply to forum categories and posts underneath it.

Another problem is the length of the posts will vary posts by post and forum by forum; I need a more efficient method of changing ALL _ to -

I've tried this piece:

RewriteRule ^forum/([^_]*)_([^_]*)_([^_]*)/([^_]*)_([^_]*)_([^_]*)/([^_]*)_([^_]*)_([^_]*)_([^_]*)/$ /forum/$1-$2-$3/$4-$5-$6/$7-$8-$9-$10/ [L,R=301]

But that's not working.....I'm looking for something to change everything in one swoop.

I could poetntially have links this long:

http://www.mysite.com/forum/Discuss-...-Strobe-P2523/

(of course with underscores)


Any htaccess gurus out there? I also tried this: RewriteRule ^/([-a-zA-Z0-9/]+)_(.+)$ /$1-$2 [L]

But that didin't work.....

ANd I've tried calling a script.php from htaccess in attempts to get it to work:

Code:

RewriteRule ^/forum/.+_.+ script.php



script.php:
Code:

$newUrl = str_replace('_', '-', $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]);
header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
header('Location: ' . $newUrl);




Any thoughts at all? Someone must know, even a 'that's impossible :P" thanks.
Thanks in advance

[speed]

All that springs to mind is to create a file called moved.php with the following in it:

<?php
header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
header('Location: http://www.discusswireless.com/forum/' . str_replace('_', '-', $_GET['u']));
?>

Then put the following in .htaccess

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^forum/(.*_.*)$ moved.php?u=$1

It seems to work for some limited testing.

[djstreet]

Originally Posted by speed

All that springs to mind is to create a file called moved.php with the following in it:

<?php
header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
header('Location: http://www.discusswireless.com/forum/' . str_replace('_', '-', $_GET['u']));
?>

Then put the following in .htaccess

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^forum/(.*_.*)$ moved.php?u=$1

It seems to work for some limited testing.

Thanks for the input. What limited testing did you run? I can't get it to work even for basic html files in a sub folder.....

[speed]

stuff.tolranet.co.uk/wpw/htaccess/file_name.html when you access that it will rewrite to file-name.html

Where did you put the .htaccess file in the forum folder or in the folder above it?

If you put it in the foum folder than change it to be:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*_.*)$ moved.php?u=$1

[djstreet]

Originally Posted by speed

stuff.tolranet.co.uk/wpw/htaccess/file_name.html when you access that it will rewrite to file-name.html

Where did you put the .htaccess file in the forum folder or in the folder above it?

If you put it in the foum folder than change it to be:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*_.*)$ moved.php?u=$1

I did use the above code when I moved it to a subfolder. Actually no, I used RewriteRule ^newsletter/

because that was the oflder for the test.

My forum folder is somewhere in th cgi-bin, however, it loads on the homepage and the htaccess in the root has a bunch of entries to call the forum from wherever so it loads as the index.

www.discusswireless.com

I don't know if that affects the placement of htis particular mod_Rewrite code..... thoughts?

thanks for the help.

[speed]

I did use the above code when I moved it to a subfolder. Actually no, I used RewriteRule ^newsletter/

Try using the RewriteRule as I gave it to you: ^(.*_.*)$ moved.php?u=$1, with both the .htaccess and moved.php being placed in the newsletter folder. You should not have any folder names in the rewrite rule for this case.

Note: You will need to update moved.php with the correct target path.

[djstreet]

Originally Posted by speed

Try using the RewriteRule as I gave it to you: ^(.*_.*)$ moved.php?u=$1, with both the .htaccess and moved.php being placed in the newsletter folder. You should not have any folder names in the rewrite rule for this case.

Note: You will need to update moved.php with the correct target path.

This should work:
Code:
Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^forum/.*_.*$ script.php [L]


script.php:
Code:
<?php

header('Location: http://' . getenv('HTTP_HOST')
. str_replace('_', '-', getenv('REQUEST_URI')), true, 301);



The above is what i recently used and was ssuccessful, are there glaring errors within this particular option? Tx