Redirects from index.php

[jsantari]

I've launched a new site with the Redirects module installed. The old site had url's like index.php?pid=8 etc. and I've setup redirects for these to the new site pages. However it doesn't work - if you you enter the url as above it no matter what value pid has for an old page it always takes you to the home page of the new site. Any ideas what the problem is with this?

[Nico Knoll]

Well redirects only working for "real" urls like "yoursite.com/home.html". Not for IDs in queries (the part behind "?").

What you could do is to add a switch to your index page (probably home.php in the templates folder):

<?php

switch($input->get->pid) {
	case '1':
	$session->redirect('http://thenewpage.com/newpath/'); // this will happen if pid in URL is 1
	break;
	case '8':
	$session->redirect('http://thenewpage.com/anotherpath/'); // this will happen if pid in URL is 8
	break;
	
}

[jsantari]

Thanks - that works but will this be considered as 301 redirects?

Never mind, I see that $session->redirect is a 301 redirect. Thanks again for the quick response and help. This will work fine for this site.

[Ivan Gretsky]

I believe it will. At least it says so here.

And just to be sure, check here too.

[Nico Knoll]

Here you go: