Help with rewrites

this post is in here because this doesnt have to do with the seo plugin....


so im having issues with a rewrite.....i run a site where we sell remixes and i have drop down box which populates dynamically with the following code:

index.php?act=viewCat&catId={DATA.cat_id}

now i have this in my htaccess file:

RewriteRule cat_(.*).html index.php?act=viewCat&catId=$1&%1 [L]
RewriteRule cat_(.*).html index.php?act=viewCat&catId=$1 [L]

it works fine when the link has been inserted into my templates manually, but not when using that dropdown....any ideas??

You can redirect those URLs back to SEOed format by adding this in .htaccess:

Code:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} act=viewCat&catId=(.+)
RewriteRule index\.php http://www.domain.com/cat_%1.html [L,R=301]

When I add that I get this forbidden message:

You don't have permission to access /cat_1&act=viewCat&catId=1&act=viewCat&catId=1&act= viewCat&catId=1&act=viewCat&catId=1&act=viewCat&ca tId=1&act=viewCat&catId=1&act=viewCat&catId=1&act= viewCat&catId=1&act=viewCat&catId=1&act=viewCat&ca tId=1&act=viewCat&catId=1&act=viewCat&catId=1&act= viewCat&catId=1&act=viewCat&catId=1&act=viewCat&ca tId=1.html on this server.

The output should be

http://store.mysite.com/categoryName/cat_id.html

Try to change the second line to:

Code:

RewriteRule index\.php http://www.domain.com/cat_%1.html? [L,R=301]

almost there, just missing the category name before the cat_id.html

Oh, in case if you have category name in URL then you won't be able to simply redirect from original URL to it. You should contact the developer of that seo mod for the fix.