PHP When rewrite pages urls how to remove or redirect category.php?cat_id=2 urls to rewrited urls?

Question

I am using this URL rewriting with PHP The Folder structure for rewriting the URLs. I am done it is working fine but after rewrite the URLs then ok now i have two URLs one is si

Answer 1

Here is how the referred code example supposed to work:

product-category.php

<?php
define( 'INCLUDE_DIR', dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/' );

$rules = array( 
    'redirect-category'  => "/product-category\\.php\\?cat_id=(?'category'\\d+)"
);

$uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$uri = urldecode( $uri );

foreach ( $rules as $action => $rule ) {
    if ( preg_match( '#'.$rule.'#', $uri, $params ) ) {
        include( INCLUDE_DIR . $action . '.php' );
        exit();
    }
}

redirect-category.php

<?php
$categories = array(
    2 => 'men-items'
);
header("Location: " . preg_replace( '#'.$rule.'#', "/product_category/{$categories[$params['category']]}/", $uri ));

Answer 2

At the top of your htaccess , put the following rule :

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^cat_id=2$ [NC]
RewriteRule category.php$ http://199.192.21.232/~admin/product-category/men-items? [L,R=302]

This will redirect http://199.192.21.232/~admin/product-category.php?cat_id=2 to http://199.192.21.232/~admin/product-category/men-items .

In case you have multiple old URLs with the same queryString , just change the condition pattern from ^cat_id=2$ to ^cat_id=.+$ . When you are sure the redirect is working fine change R=302 to R=301 to make the Redirection permanent .