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I am using D7.

I am attempting to create a redirect in my .htaccess file that will redirect the page if the path doesn't match a pattern.

# only if a particular domain
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite\.domain\.org$ [NC]
# only if URI contains "library"
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/Library$ [NC]
# rewrite the URL
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://otherdomain.org/$1 [R=301,L]

This works fine for most of the site (e.g. http://mysite.domain.org/blogs is redirected to http://otherdomain.org/blogs

However, http://mysite.domain.org/Library?id=1234 is being redirected but to http://otherdomain.org?id=1234 ("library" in URI is missing but this shouldn't redirect at all)

What am I missing? Am I running into Drupal URL rewriting rules?

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  • Hello, and welcome to Drupal Answers. Did you write those rules before, or after the ones used by Drupal? – kiamlaluno♦ Mar 18 '13 at 19:52
  • They come right before the index.php section – zkent Mar 18 '13 at 19:53
  • FYI. I couldn't get this to work but I am not sure if Drupal's own internal functions were interfering. We abandoned this for a different solution. – zkent Mar 20 '13 at 14:10
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Try this:

# only if a particular domain
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite\.domain\.org$ [NC]
# rewrite the URL
RewriteRule ^((?!Library).*)$ http://otherdomain.org/$1 [R=301,L]

The (?!Library) should look ahead, and the match should fail if "Library" is present. Hope this works for you.

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  • Getting a 500 error. RewriteRule: bad flag delimiters – zkent Mar 19 '13 at 1:39
  • Fixed. I had a space between the flags. – zkent Mar 19 '13 at 1:49
  • Its not failing with "library" in the URL. Its still rewriting the URL. – zkent Mar 19 '13 at 3:44
  • Library or library? It will be case sensitive. – Triskelion Mar 19 '13 at 4:03
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    oops. It's been too long since my Perl days. Try this instead: RewriteRule ^((?!Library).)*$ otherdomain.org/$1 [R=301,L]. – Triskelion Mar 19 '13 at 17:47

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