rewriting of URIs

gkbk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Perl Monks,

I am a newbie in Perl, Apache. On Apache (using XAMPP), I am trying to rewrite URIs in .htaccess file as follows:

RewriteEngine On<br>
RewriteRule ^index.html$ about.html  #this works<br>
Redirect 301 ^index.html$ about.html #this does not work<br>
RewriteRule ^http://localhost/sample/prog.pl?q=param:A;pageoffset=10$ 
+http://localhost/sample/prog.pl?q=param:B;pageoffset=20 #this does no
+t work<br><br>
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I am not sure what the mistake is for the two rewrites that don't work, as shown above. Please advise.

Thanks for this super cool wesbite!

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Re: rewriting of URIs (mod_rewrite mod_alias) by Anonymous Monk on Mar 12, 2014 at 00:01 UTC
Welcome, see The Perl Monks Guide to the Monastery Please advise. dots and question marks are special characters in regular expressions ... meaning you skipped the introduction (see links below) Also I don't think "Redirect" takes a regular expression ... docs explain this Try stackoverflow without the "perl" tag as apache/mod-rewrite isn't perl at all Example http://stackoverflow.com/questions/877736/301-redirect-index-html-to-or-index-php See also Re: mod_rewrite VS SSI VS your better idea (meaningful urls) mod_rewrite: A Beginner's Guide to URL Rewriting mod_rewrite Tutorial for Absolute Beginners Apache Server Mod Rewrite Tips, Tricks and Forum Modrewrite.com mod_rewrite - Apache HTTP Server mod_alias - Apache HTTP Server Where should I post X?, How do I post a question effectively?	[reply]
Re^2: rewriting of URIs (mod_rewrite mod_alias) by gkbk (Initiate) on Mar 13, 2014 at 02:08 UTC
Thanks Anonymous Monk for those links. They were helpful, but still I am unable to solve my problem. I tried as follows: `RewriteRule ^http\:\/\/localhost\/sample\/prog\.pl\?q\=param\:A\;pageo +ffset\=10$ http://localhost/sample/prog.pl?q=param:B;pageoffset=20 RewriteRule ^prog\.pl\?q\=param\:A\;pageoffset\=10$ prog.pl?q=param:B; +pageoffset=20` [download] After this, when I open page `'http://localhost/sample/prog.pl?q=param:A;pageoffset=10'` in the browser, I get the content of this same page and not the page that is intended/directed (i.e. `http://localhost/sample/prog.pl?q=param:B;pageoffset=20)`. Any suggestions? Thanks again.	[reply] [d/l] [select]