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I am trying to redirect some old URL’s and EE is hijacking them. Specifically, this is the url I am trying to redirect.

Redirect 301 /trips/tripdetail.cfm?TripID=26 http://adventurescrosscountry.com/trips/africa-service

It displays my template in the template group ‘trips’  and the last entry for that channel. Bascially, it is ignoring the redirect thinking that you want to display an entry. Here is the full htaccess file.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
      RewriteEngine On

      # Removes index.php
      RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
      RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

      # If 404s, “No Input File” or every URL returns the same thing
      # make it /index.php?/$1 above (add the question mark)
</IfModule>

#################################################

  # 301 Redirects

#################################################

Redirect 301 /trips/search/category/trip-activites /trips/calendar
Redirect 301 /trips/search/category/trip-locations /trips/map
Redirect 301 /trips/tripdetail.cfm?TripID=26 http://adventurescrosscountry.com/trips/africa-service

Hey Charming Nerd,

I am sorry to hear you are running into this problem.

.htaccess is a bit outside of support for ExpressionEngine. The only bit of code that we suggested is the removal of index.php and even that is not guaranteed in all server environments.

I can move this over to the Community Help Forum if you would like? The community may have some tips for you.

I am sorry I could not be of more help.

Cheers,

Not sure if you still need help but one way to do it is to add another rewrite to pass that entire dir through:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !trips/
RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

Hey wildermagic,

Thanks for the tip! I am sure it will be helpful to the community.

Cheers,