I've discovered that we have two identical php files and I'd like to delete one file and point all the links to the same file.

both files have backlinks to them so I don't want to lose seo points.

e.g.

/details.php?id=56
/news2.php?id=56

the file name is the same but the ?id=xx will be the same for both files, I know how to do a 301 for static files, but can someone help me in achieving this for the dynamic files.

Thanks.

hi koolguyz

Thanks for taking your time to help, but I have to say as a non programmer I've found the advice you posted very difficult to follow, thanksfully though I've managed to do a php redirect which was a lot easier to pull off than the .htaccess redirect.

PHP Code:

<?php
$location ="destination url (less id)";
  header ('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
  header ('Location: '.$location.$id);
?>

I don't even know php, but the above code made sense to me and I managed to pull it off.

the .id was the variable name of the field with numerical values at the end of the url.