I have a link:
http://www.ignitionmarketing.co.za/products_promoDC.php?Product_Category=Corporate+Gifts
I would like it to be:
http://www.ignitionmarketing.co.za/product-category/corporate-gifts/
Also I have tried the normal way of:
Redirect 301 /products_promoDC.php?Product_Category=Corporate+Gifts http://www.ignitionmarketing.co.za/product-category/corporate-gifts/
But it still stays on a 404 page.
Could someone please help me?
Added Note:
I have a couple of other links that need to be redirected like:
/products_promoDC.php?Product_Category=Corporate+Clothing
/products_promoDC.php?Product_Category=Corporate+Clothing&Product_Subcategory=Shirts
The new WordPress shop does have the same categories as well.
Just a better explanation to the solution. Maybe you come across a similar issue in the future.
I redirected my "products_promoDC.php" to /product-category/ so the Variable/Parameter is then only loaded behind (/product-category/Corporate+Clothing/) this still gave me a 404 error because of the plus (+) within the URL. I simply then wrote a RewriteRule to convert the pluses (+) to dashes!
Much easier than to do a RewriteMatch which could cause problems with the Subcategories.
RewriteRule "^([^+]*)\++([^+]*\+.*)$" /$1-$2 [N]
RewriteRule "^([^+]*)\++([^+]*)$" /$1-$2 [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} Product_Category=([^&]+) [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} Product_Subcategory=([^&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule products_promoDC\.php product-category/%1/? [L,R=301]
I added a second line for my subcategories to load as well!
Working perfectly: http://www.ignitionmarketing.co.za/products_promoDC.php?Product_Category=Corporate+Gifts