simple .htaccess redirect : how to redirect with parameters?

Question

My goal is simply to redirect:

/jsn.php?parameters to http://www.site2.com/jsn.php?parameters

I tried with

Redirect permanent /jsn.php(.)* http://www.site2.com/jsn.php$1

Solution 1

Query string parameters are automatically passed, you simply want to do this:

Redirect permanent /jsn.php http://www.site2.com/jsn.php

The (.)* doesn't work with the Redirect directive, you were probably thinking of RedirectMatch, but either way, you don't need it. And also (.)* should be (.*), otherwise the $1 backreference would only get the first character.

Solution 2

Enable mod_rewrite and .htaccess through httpd.conf and then put this code in your .htaccess under DOCUMENT_ROOT directory:

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^(jsn\.php)$ http://www.site2.com/$1 [L,NC,R=301]

Solution 3

You can use an explicit URL rewrite in your .htaccess file:

RewriteRule ^/jsn\.php\?(.*) http://www.site2.com/jsn.php?$1 [R]

Note: You need to escape . and ? because they are also regular expression characters.

If you have a problem using mod_rewrite, post the contents of your file.