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Hi there

We’re about to launch a new site for a client and need some help figuring out how to redirect their old, non EE urls to the new pages we’ve created in EE.

I’d normally do a simple 301 redirect in the .htaccess file, but the problem here is that their old urls are in the following format:

/contentpage.php?pageid=70

The following results in a 404 on the new EE site:

redirect 301 /contentpage.php?pageid=70 <a href="http://www.clientdomainname.com/their-new-page/">http://www.clientdomainname.com/their-new-page/</a>

I’m fairly sure the answer is modrewrite, but can’t figure out how to go about writing the appropriate code. Anyone any ideas?

My current .htaccess includes the following to hide index.php:

# turn on RewriteEngine
RewriteEngine on

# Redirect non www to www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ <a href="http://www.%{http_host}/$1">http://www.%{http_host}/$1</a> [R=301,L]

# ee stuff
RewriteCond $1 !^(assets|engine-room|robots\.txt|index\.php|admin\.php|webstat|googlea60d4a5d3d2f97fc\.html) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

Looking forward to hearing if anyone has a solution.

Cheers

Jim

This article may help - http://www.simonwhatley.co.uk/apache-htaccess-query-string-redirects

Thanks Rob - interesting article but the examples there all follow a specific redirect pattern. The redirected urls in my situation don’t have any resemblance to the old urls.

Edit:

I figured it out. The following code redirects a url like /contentpage.php?pageid=70 to /schools/schools-we-work-with/:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} pageid=70$ 
RewriteRule (.*) /schools/schools-we-work-with/? [R=301,L]

My situation required that I added multiple instances of this, but with different pageid=x parts and different redirect urls. Works a treat!

Don’t forget to add a “?” at the end of your redirect url - that’s needed to not add the query string onto the end of the url.