RewriteRule not working

Question

I am trying to add a rewrite rule in my httpd.conf file but it's not working.

Here's the relevant section:

RewriteRule ^/taxonomy/term/([0-9]+)$ http://www.example.com/taxonomy/term/$1 [R=301, L]

Currently, my site name is www.domain.com and I am trying to redirect all the URLs starting with taxonomy/term/{integer} to my new domain www.example.com through an httpd.conf RewriteRule.

Solution 1

Apache must have complained about:

RewriteRule: bad flag delimiters

Remove the white space in your flags. Change this:

[R=301, L]

to:

[R=301,L]

Note: if you're using the rule inside a per-directory htaccess file, you need to omit the leading slash:

RewriteRule ^taxonomy/term/([0-9]+)$ http://www.example.com/taxonomy/term/$1 [R=301,L]

Solution 2

Remove the beginning slash:

 RewriteRule ^taxonomy/term/([0-9]+)$ http://www.example.com/taxonomy/term/$1 [R=301, L]

Comments

[LazyD]

Hi John, thanks for your inputs. i have already tried that but not working :(

[LazyD]

i was unable to restart the services after the above mentioned changes?

[LazyD]

Are u aware of some online site wherein we can quickly check the same?

[Salman A]

I'm not aware of any website that allows you to tamper with .htaccess files :) But this website might help.

[LazyD]

Thanx Salman... But this site no were states the error.. as u have pointed out above "RewriteRule: bad flag delimiters"..

[Salman A]

Hmmm, the website probably cannot tell if your htaccess or conf file is OK. The error I mentioned was logged in Apache logs; it is the first place you should look when you see the dreaded 500 Internal Server Error.