Of course:
httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/rewrite/rewrite_guide.html
Content Handling
From Old to New (intern)
Description:
Assume we have recently renamed the page foo.html to bar.html and now want to provide the old URL for backward compatibility. Actually we want that users of the old URL even not recognize that the pages was renamed.
Solution:
We rewrite the old URL to the new one internally via the following rule:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /~quux/
RewriteRule ^foo\.html$ bar.html
In your case add this directive just after RewriteBase:
########## End - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits
# Uncomment following line if your webserver's URL
# is not directly related to physical file paths.
# Update Your Joomla! Directory (just / for root)
# RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^videoEn$ http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=61&Itemid=41&lang=en [P,L]
You just need to change
www.yoursite.com in the example above with your real domain. Note that we are using mod_rewrite to do INTERNAL REDIRECTION, so that from client side the URL remains the original one.
But for this to work as you want, we need to add a proxy flag at the end and also be sure to enable mod_proxy and mod_http_proxy, otherwise this will not work.
The reason is the following. You could use something like this:
RewriteRule ^videoEn$ /index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=61&Itemid=41&lang=en
I'm assuming your site is on the root folder of domain. In this case the internal redirect happens, but to the destination page (Joomla) the REQUEST_URI appears as the original one (/videoEn) and this cause a "component error".
I hope I was clear enough. Unfortunately redirection and rewrite are two hard Apache topics.
Let me know,
Luigi
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