Level 1
Have you tried adding a hook on routes?
Jul 29, 2015
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Level 4
301 redirects for new site
I have just switched my site over to a shiny new one made with Laravel 5. Now I need to redirect the old URLs indexed by Google to the new ones.
The old URLs were in the format:
www.mysite.com/products/product.php?product_id=1
The new ones are in the format:
www.mysite.com/products/nice-product-slug
I've tried adding a 301 redirect in my .htaccess file using my host's Cpanel, but when I hit the old URL, the browser redirects to:
http://www.mysite.com/index.php?product_id=1
Is there something Laravel-specific I need to do? I've also read that editing the httpd.conf file may be a better solution. Any ideas very much appreciated.
Level 65
Redirects on Apache don't allow you to do direct ones from query strings to a URL. You have to do something like this;
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} product_id=12$
RewriteRule (.*) /products/nice-product-slug/? [R=301,L]
not tested
Level 4
@bashy that works a treat! Thanks muchly.
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