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How to create redirect specific user agent on specific url to specific url in htaccess?

e.g

I want to redirect 301 with conditional:

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useragent: Firefox
in my url1: http://sampledomain.tld/old-urls1/
in my url2: http://sampledomain.tld/old-urls12/

to

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new url1: in my url1: http://sampledomain.tld/new-urls1/
new url2: in my url1: http://sampledomain.tld/old-urls2/

I try this in .htaccess

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} googlebot [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?this-is-url/?$ http://newurl.tld/this-url [L,R,NC]

but not work

Thanks so much

"Does not work" is not a qualified error report!

If I use your .htaccess and set my UA to googlebot it will redirect me, so the rules are correct. What is not working and how exactly are you testing your rules?

I try it using different useragent Firefox

Code like this:

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Firefox
RewriteRule ^/?this-is-url/?$ http://newurl.tld/this-url [L,R=301]

I try to using Chrome but still not work

Do you actually know how Useragent-String usually look like?

Firefox@W7

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0

Chrome@W7

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.152 Safari/537.36

In both browsers you can install extensions (search for "user agent switcher") to set your desired string (e.g. googlebot). You might have to try some different extensions as some only let you choose between predefined settings while others let you define own strings.

Do you actually know how Useragent-String usually look like? with easily I can check it here

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http://www.whatsmyua.com/ or here http://whatsmyuseragent.com/

but it doesn't matter if I put Firefox, Chrome, Googlebot etc like this:

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RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Googlebot [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} msnbot [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Slurp

In both browsers you can install extensions (search for "user agent switcher") to set your desired string (e.g. googlebot). You might have to try some different extensions as some only let you choose between predefined settings while others let you define own strings.

I tried but not working!

Question is: can you answer my question or not? just leave it if you don't! please straight to the answer and here is my question!

How to create redirect specific user agent on specific url to specific url in htaccess?

e.g

I want to redirect 301 with conditional:

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    useragent: Firefox
    in my url1: http://sampledomain.tld/old-urls1/
    in my url2: http://sampledomain.tld/old-urls12/

to

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    new url1: in my url1: http://sampledomain.tld/new-urls1/
    new url2: in my url1: http://sampledomain.tld/old-urls2/

I try this in .htaccess

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    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} googlebot [NC]
    RewriteRule ^/?this-is-url/?$ http://newurl.tld/this-url [L,R,NC] 

I need simple answer: how to change it with the correct one? RewriteRule ^/?this-is-url/?$ http://newurl.tld/this-url [L,R,NC]

>I need simple answer: how to change it with the correct one? RewriteRule ^/?this-is-url/?$ http://newurl.tld/this-url [L,R,NC]

Simple: syntactically and theoretically it looks right.

But probably there seems to be an error, mostly in the pattern or similar. We cannot debug this for you, you should go step by step and apply simple example patterns etc. - it is quite a pain to debug .htaccess

I would recommend

a) first of all apply a very simple RewriteRule, which matches always, in order to find out, if the Condition is true or not.

b) at next, run a a test on your RewriteRule, simply remove the condition above, so that this line is executed in any way. This will give you a clue, if there is a problem with the RewriteRule


Step by step you will find out, why it does not work as expected. There is no debugger for that task.

haryono wrote:I need simple answer: how to change it with the correct one? RewriteRule ^/?this-is-url/?$ http://newurl.tld/this-url [L,R,NC]

Simple Answer: This is a correct one. It might not work as you expect, but as long as you do not specify what you expect we will not be able to help you.

If I use your .htaccess and put it into my own htdocs I will get redirected to http://newurl.tld/this-url when I try to access http://localhost/this-is-url with Useragent set to googlebot (Of course the redirect will fail as newurl.tld is not a valid URI, but the redirect happens)

use your firefox then visit

http://gordenminimalis.web.id/

I put my code

Please your firefox first

then visit:

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gordenminimalis.web.id

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} gordenminimalis.web.id$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Firefox [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} msnbot [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Slurp
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://bing.com/$1 [L,R=301]

After that change your useragent or your browser + visit again

I try it with chrome and it's work (no redirect to bing)

the problem is when I want to redirect urls from gordenminimalis.web.id e.g http://www.gordenminimalis.web.id/product/contoh-produk-4/ so far I can't found best solution

Now we are getting closer. Obviously your RewriteConditions work.

haryono wrote:the problem is when I want to redirect urls from gordenminimalis.web.id e.g http://www.gordenminimalis.web.id/produ ... -produk-4/ so far I can't found best solution

Where is the problem? You already had the expression right:

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RewriteRule ^product/contoh-produk-4/?$ http://bing.com/$1 [L,R=301]

This will redirect http://gordenminimalis.web.id/product/contoh-produk-4 and http://gordenminimalis.web.id/product/contoh-produk-4/ to bing

On my PC everything works correctly.

I added gordenminimalis.web.id to my hosts file /etc/hosts:

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127.0.0.1  gordenminimalis.web.id

I added a folder "rewrite" in my htdocs folder and put a .htaccess with this contents:

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} gordenminimalis.web.id$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Chrome [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Firefox [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} msnbot [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Slurp
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://bing.com/$1 [L,R=301]


And when i call http:// gordenminimalis.web.id/rewrite in my Browser (as well Firefox as Chrome), i am redirected to Bing.