Transform URL with text in querystring

[andresites Profile]

Hi,
I'm sorry, probably this is a rookie question but I spent the entire day trying to make this work and all the examples I found just doesn't work.
I need to transform something like
www.mysite.com/product.asp?prodID=2323& ... of+product
into
www.mysite.com/2323/the-name-of-product.html

Is it possible somehow?

Thanks for help in advance.

[HeliconAndrew]

Hello,

It is. There're quite a lot of things like that here. You need:

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^prodID=(\d+)&prodName=([^&]+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^product\.asp$ /%1/%2? [NC,R=301,L]

Regards

[andresites Profile]

Hi Andrew,

Thank you for your help.

I did find a lot of examples out there but I just couldn't get it running properly,

The solution you gave really rewrites the url but it returns the 404 error... the product.asp file is on the server and if you call it with no querystring, it will open normaly. Should I make any changes on the server side?

Thank you again
Adré

[HeliconAndrew]

Well, you asked for redirect. Here's a second part that will make the pretty URL work:

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RewriteRule ^(\d+)/([^/]+)$ /product.asp?prodID=$1&prodName=$2 [NC,L]

Regards

[andresites Profile]

It worked like a charm. Thank you so much... I will study more the documentation and regular expretions to do new tricks with url rewriting.

Thank you very much