By wxman on

We switched to Drupal quite a while ago, but after looking at the server logs, I see people are still looking for us at the old CMS addresses. It was a Joomla install so the addresses are like www.example.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_events&task=.... I just want to redirect them all to the root (www.example.com/) of the new site.

I want to add it to vhost.conf but I haven't been able to get anything to work. All my try's end up with all the URL after index.php being added to the root address of the new site (www.example.com/?option=com_events&task=...).

I'd appreciate any advice.

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sreyas’s picture

sreyas commented

Seems like you had a joomla folder for your cms earlier. So try recreating the joomla folder there and inside that add this .htaccess file

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com  [L,R=301]

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wxman’s picture

wxman commented

Thanks, I'm trying that now.
There must be a way to do it through httpd.conf or vhost.conf though.

briansea’s picture

briansea commented

If you include a ? at the end of the url to which the user will be directed, mod_rewirte won't include the original url's query string.

This should do it.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/joomla
RewriteRule .* /? [L,R=301]
wxman’s picture

wxman commented

Thanks Brian, unfortunately that didn't work. I tried to do it for a similar item; my now defunct serendipity blog. It had the same type of URL like www.example.com/serendipity/index.php?/9-blog-entry-title.html. I added it to my vhosts.conf and restarted apache. It's still adding the URL to the end.

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briansea commented

It sounds like you have some other rewrites happening before it gets to this one. I tested what I sent to you, and it does work, at least when it isn't after other rules.