Rewriting dynamic URLs

Question

I\' trying to rewrite 1 dynamic URL to another dynamic URL as follows;

/category?category=News to
/categorysearch/result/?q=news

I was wond

Answer 1

Depending on what you're trying to do and how specific things need to be, there are two options.

The first is Rob W's solution, which should redirect the user from /category?category=News to /categorysearch/result/?q=News

If, as it appears, your URLs are case-sensitive, you might want to look at a PHP script like the following:

$matches = array();
if( preg_match( "/^/category\?category=(.+)/", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], $matches ) ) {
    header( 'Location: http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . '/categorysearch/result/?q= . strtolower($matches[1]) );
}
else {
    //ERROR HANDLING
}

Once that's settled, you can use a rule like the following to redirect using a fully lowercase parameter.

RewriteRule ^category\?category=(.+)$ redirect.php [L]

Put together, this solution would redirect /category?category=News to /categorysearch/result/?q=news