[thelist] Mod rewrite (Resolved)

[Simon Perry]

David Kaufman wrote:

>Simon Perry <theist at si-designs.co.uk> wrote:
>  
>
>>I'm having a problem getting mod rewrite to do quite what I want...
>>
>>RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} dest=([A-Z]{3})
>>RewriteRule ^(bin|cgi-bin)/flight-search.cgi /charter_flight.php?to=$2
>>[R=301]
>>    
>>
>
>Um, first off, the $2 would reference the text matching the *second* set
>of parens in the rewriterule pattern, but you don't seem to *have* a
>second pair of parens in your rewriterule pattern.
>
>Second, if you change the $2 to $1 it will match, and append onto your
>new URL, either the "bin" or "cgi-bin" string, whichever matched in the
>old url.  This doesn't appear to be what you were going for.  To
>backreference the first parenthetic part from a rewrite condition
>pattern on an earlier line, try using %1 instead.
>
Dave,

The $2 was a left over from an earlier regex that I was trying before I 
found out the the query string is actually sent separately to the URL. I 
put %1 in and it now works! I also got rid of the first grouping as I 
wasn't actually using it, so the final rule is as follows;

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} dest=([A-Z]{3})
RewriteRule ^bin|cgi-bin/flight-search.cgi 
http://www.charterflights.co.uk/charter_flight.php?to=%1 [R=301]

Thanks

Simon