[Resolved] Redirecting to new pages

[trmash]

Hi,

Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere, but I didn't find a relevant answer when I searched. Admittedly it IS quite late here, so I may have missed some.

Edit: I should add that I have gone through this thread but still can not make sense of how to achieve what I'm trying to do.

I need to redirect a handful of old pages (from a client's old WordPress install) cached in Google to their new pages in GetSimple. For example, their old /menu page is now /eat.

I tried using "Redirect 301 /menu http://www.domain.com/eat" in the .htaccess file, but that just resulted in the URL being returned as "http://www.domain.com/eat/?id=menu"

I think I have to implement a RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} type of thing, but can't quite get my head around it. Hope you can help!

Thanks.

[sal]

I haven't used it but the URI Redirect plugin should do the trick.

[trmash]

I haven't used it but the URI Redirect plugin should do the trick.

Thanks for your reply, but I'd prefer a solution that's limited to the .htaccess rather than a plugin - mainly because it's a site for another person and I don't want them to have to worry about plugins down the track.

Also, it'd be handy knowledge to have for my own development too.

Thanks again though.

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Okay, so fresh eyes after a good night's sleep seem to have helped. For those still confused, the answer was here all along.

Here's an excerpt of that post - with the solution I was missing made much more obvious:

I had the same problem when I made some redirects on get-simple.info pointing the old docs to the new wiki. Here is what my .htaccess file looks like. Pay attention to the placement of things.

Where I was putting the RewriteRule is why mine wasn't working - once I inserted it after RewriteBase / and before RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f everything started working correctly.

Problem solved, thanks to ccagle8 and a good night's sleep.