Trying to Redirect does not work

[pmquist]

Hi all,

I dont have much knowledge about redirects, but in vB4 I used the .htacces-file to create useful redirects so that for example www.utkiken.net/fire pointed to a specifik post or search. When I try to do that in vB5 pointing to searches is no problem but when pointing to a specific post the URL is correct but with an added ?routestring after the URL. For example this http://www.utkiken.net/node/43156?routestring=vindgbg. That extra addition makes an invalid URL.

Is there an easy way to fix this?

Regards / PerOla

[pmquist]

Bump

[Mark.B]

vB5 uses redirects itself so you may have trouble getting stuff like that working.

You're probably better trying to redirect to the full post URL rather than the node shortcut.

[pmquist]

Thanks Mark.B,

Well I tried that as well and it returns the same ending at the end of the URL. Like this for example: http://www.utkiken.net/forum/dokumen...string=altsyst. Which returns a not valid page-URL.

In the .htaccess there is a part about "MainRedirect"

    # Main Redirect
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|css)$
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?routestring=$1 [L,QSA]

Could that have something to do with it, and in that case, would it be possible to add something that made an exception for all the node links?

[twistsol]

In your redirect, try adding a ? after the url you are redirecting to. I did this with a number of our old articles I had to redirect and it solved the issue.