Regexp / htaccess rewrite fun

I have a long list of URLs from an old site structure that I need to redirect using RedirectMatch to new URLs on the same domain. The trick is that the old (source) URLs contain a bunch of messy variables. That's not a problem, right? I just put in place some sweet little Regexp statements to handle those variables. That's what I did开发者_Python百科, and it matches the variables correctly. Sweet!

The problem comes with the second part of the RedirectMatch statement - the destination. RedirectMatch is correctly resolving the old URLs to the new URLs, except that the old variables are appended to the new URL. I want to keep the redirects, but have the destination URL not contain the variables. Here is my code:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/Shop/Category1/Category2/(.*)$ http://www.website.com/garage.html

Actual Redirect URL:

http://www.website.com/garage.html?launch_pg=itemZoomView&launch_sel=1009152&launch_pg_sp=true&title=Pig+Waste+Can

Can anybody point me to what I am doing wrong here? I just want to get rid of those crummy old variables and start fresh.

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If by "variables" you mean query string (the launch_pg=itemZoomView&launch_sel=1009152&launch_pg_sp=true&title=Pig+Waste+Can part of your destination URL example), then use this redirect rule:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/Shop/Category1/Category2/(.*)$ http://www.website.com/garage.html?

The only difference -- the ? at the end of new URL. This stops old query string from being copied over as we telling Apache that new URL will have this empty query string.

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If you can use mod_rewrite, here is the rule:

# Activate Rewrite Engine
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

# the rewrite rule
RewriteRule ^Shop/Category1/Category2/(.*)$ http://www.website.com/garage.html? [R=301,L]

This definitely will redirect with empty query string.