Question mark '?' in the regular expression

[BostX]

Hi everyone
It seems like I have a problem with the question mark '?' in the regular expression:
Does anyone know what's the trouble? thx in advance! I have a couple of existing redirects:

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Redirect permanent   /customer_101   https://www.aaa.com/path/index.do?customer=101
Redirect permanent   /customer_102   https://www.aaa.com/path/index.do?customer=102
Redirect permanent   /customer_103   https://www.aaa.com/path/index.do?customer=103


so every customer can access his pages unter both links:

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https://www.aaa.com/path/index.do?customer=10x
https://www.aaa.com/path/customer_10x

and I'd like to redirect both links but only the customer 102. I do:

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Redirect    temp    /customer_102    https://www.bbb.com/game_over.html

and this works as desired. But when I try to redirect the

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https://www.aaa.com/path/index.do?customer=102

I get in troubles. I think I tried every combination:

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RewriteRule    ^/path/index\.do.customer=102$     https://www.bbb.com/game_over.html [R=301,L]
RewriteRule    ^/path/index\.do?customer=102$     https://www.bbb.com/game_over.html [R=301,L]
RewriteRule    ^/path/index\.do\?customer=102$    https://www.bbb.com/game_over.html [R=301,L]
RewriteRule    ^/path/index\.do\?customer\=102$   https://www.bbb.com/game_over.html [R=301,L]
RewriteRule    ^/path/index\.do\?$                https://www.bbb.com/game_over.html [R=301,L]
RewriteRule    ^/path/index\.do?customer\=102$    https://www.bbb.com/game_over.html [R=301,L]
RewriteRule    ^.*customer=102$                   https://www.bbb.com/game_over.html [R=301,L]
RewriteRule    ^.*102$                            https://www.bbb.com/game_over.html [R=301,L]


but these rules do not not redirect any link

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RewriteRule    ^/path/index\.do?$                 https://www.bbb.com/game_over.html [R=301,L]
RewriteRule    ^/path/index\.do?.*$               https://www.bbb.com/game_over.html [R=301,L]
RewriteRule    ^/path/index\.do.*$                https://www.bbb.com/game_over.html [R=301,L]

and these rules redirect every link. And I tried the same with:

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Redirect temp          ...
RedirectMatch temp     ...


and it does'nt work anyway

BostX

[Nobbie]

Question mark has a special meaning in regular expressions, if you want to match a question mark, you have to escape it via backslash.

It might be a good idea to read about the basics of regular expressions.

[BostX]

Question mark has a special meaning in regular expressions, if you want to match a question mark, you have to escape it via backslash.
It might be a good idea to read about the basics of regular expressions.

I know that and I did escape the question mark with backslash - but it still doesn't work!

[mzehngut]

I just ran into this too. Try [?] instead of \? in your regular expression. This worked for me.