Can anyone tell me what's wrong with this htaccess code

Question

I am not able to get through with this code...I need to capture the request but with this code I am able to redirect but it cannot find the particular search page.

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]+\ /searcha\.php\?name=(www\.)?([^/\ ]+)[^\ ]*\ HTTP/ 
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://www.mydomain.com/%2? [R=301,L]

can any one tell me what is I am missing??

Answer 1

In your RewriteRule, you don't capture anything, but then you reference %2...? RewriteRule won't operate on the captured data from the regex in RewriteCond.

Update: Actually, now that I'm reading your code more closely, it looks like you don't need the RewriteCond. If you're just trying to rewrite one URL as another, you can do something like this:

RewriteRule ^searcha\.php\?name=(www\.)?([^/\ ]+)[^\ ]* http://www.mydomain.com/%2 [R=301,L]

(You might have to tweak that regex some more since I'm not sure what you're trying to match)