htaccess redirect

[freehits]

I know anytime htaccess is in the question the thing never gets answered and goes to the bottom with 0 replies ;P

Just hard to find a resource for all questions.

I use this

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^profile.html$ MYLINKHERE.com/page.html[L,R=301]

This is fine but changes the URl of course.
The ladning page url shows in the browser.

I have seen redirects that keeps the original url in the browser, how is this accomplished?

I know affiliates love this....

[mikesmith76]

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^profile.html$ MYLINKHERE.com/page.html[L,R=301]

This rule causes a redirect header to be outputted, you've told it do do this by adding R=301 to the parameters at the end.

If you was to use

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^profile.html$ MYLINKHERE.com/page.html[L]

this would silently rewrite the link as opposed to using an external redirect.

Don't forget to flush your browsers cache when testing.

[wige]

You have to remove the domain name when doing an internal redirect. For example:

User URL: yoursite.com/products/my-great-product.html
URL of the script: yoursite.com/showproduct.php?name=my-great-product
Redirect Rule: RewriteRule ^/products/(.*).html$ /showproduct.php?name=$1 [L]

Otherwise, if you include the domain name in the redirect rule, the server will assume you want to redirect the user to an external site and will use a 302 redirect.

[mikesmith76]

You have to remove the domain name when doing an internal redirect.

Glad somebody remembered that part. Thanks!