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Hi all,

Apologies if this is the wrong place to post but I’m working on launching a site today and I’m running into a few issues setting up my 301 redirects, and was hoping someone might have an idea of what’s going wrong.

An example old URL is:

http://www.marshallpierce.com/?page=Jewelry

The new URL is:

http://www.marshallpierce.com/index.php/marshallpierce/jewelry/

Note: I’ll be removing the index.php from the URL structure, but just wanted to get these redirects working first.

I’ve tried a number of different redirects and I’m either getting an Internal Server Error or no redirect takes place (in which case it just loads the homepage regardless of what comes after the ? in the url).

Any insight is greatly appreciated.

Ignore if I’m covering familiar territory here, but a few random thoughts…  How did you write the redirects in your .htaccess file?  Is RewriteEngine on?  Is there anything else in the file that could be removed for testing?  What if you remove index.php now and test the redirects?

I came across this post about Redirects for Dynamic URLs and was able to get it working.

http://www.seoverflow.com/seo/setting-up-301-redirects-for-dynamic-urls/

I ended up using this:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page=Jewelry$
RewriteRule ^$ <a href="http://www.marshallpierce.com/marshallpierce/jewelry/">http://www.marshallpierce.com/marshallpierce/jewelry/</a>? [R=301,L]

Hi Vince

I’ve used this add-on for 301’s in the past, it worked without fail. http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/detour (I noticed that Detour Pro is now available)

Hope it helps!
Matt