Htaccess Redirect

[sugan]

Hai,I used redirect in my site. It took well in my previous host, but not in the new one...

RewriteEngine onRewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/testing/(.*).htmlRewriteRule ^(.*).html http://example.com/testing/test.php?name=$1 [L]

The redirection takes place, but the url shows like

http://example.com/testing/test.php?name=$1

It should be as

http://example.com/testing/something.html

Why is it not working?Kindly help!Regards,Suganya

[boen_robot]

The two regular expressions you have are conflicting with each other. There's no way they'll both match at the same time.The RewrtieCond wants "^/testing/(.*).html" which would match "/testing/something.html", but not "something.html". The second one wants "^(.*).html" which would match "something.html" (relative to the .htaccess folder I think), but not "/testing/something.html". And in order for the rewrite to be executed, it must match both the RewriteCond and RewriteRule regular expressions.Also, when you have "http://" in your rewriting action (the second argument in RewriteRule), mod_rewrite performs a redirect instead of a rewrite. That reminds me - your title says "redirect", but you're talking about "rewrite". The difference between the two is that with rewrite, the user sees the original URL, and with a redirect, the user sees another URL. Well, that's the "user friendly" explanation anyway.Try to remove the RewriteCond, and make the RewriteRule something like:

RewriteRule ^/testing/(.*).html /testing/test.php?name=$1 [L]

[sugan]

Hai,I tried yours but it did not work..As i told before, I tested with another server it worked...How to solve it? Is there any other option i can do?Regards,Suganya

[boen_robot]

O..k... try it with your rule and condition, but remove the "http://" in the rewrite action, i.e. leave that part as in my rule.