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**stockstreet** · 10-30-2007, 08:19 AM

Hi everybody,

I've read about 20 different blogs and forum posts on the topic of 301 redirects. They all make perfect sense to me, and have code examples for me to copy and yet when I upload my .htaccess file, they don't work!

Bit of background: I have rebuilt a site where a lot of the pages that had good PageRank now have different URLs. So I have created the following .htaccess file with the following 301 redirects to upload to the Apache server:

Code:

Redirect 301 /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=56&Itemid=72 http://www.paa.com.au/testimonials.htm
Redirect 301 /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=38&Itemid=51 http://www.paa.com.au/selling-a-house-in-melbourne.htm
Redirect 301 /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30&Itemid=40 http://www.paa.com.au/investing-in-melbourne.htm
Redirect 301 /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=36 http://www.paa.com.au/buying-a-house-in-melbourne.htm
Redirect 301 /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=48 http://www.paa.com.au/selling-services.htm
Redirect 301 /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=44&Itemid=55 http://www.paa.com.au/buying-services.htm
Redirect 301 /index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=62 http://www.paa.com.au/enquiries.htm
Redirect 301 /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=40&Itemid=57 http://www.paa.com.au/buying-services.htm
Redirect 301 /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37&Itemid=50 http://www.paa.com.au
Redirect 301 /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=43&Itemid=60 http://www.paa.com.au/buying-services.htm
Redirect 301 /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41&Itemid=58 http://www.paa.com.au/buying-services.htm
Redirect 301 /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=54&Itemid=67 http://www.paa.com.au/testimonials.htm
Redirect 301 /form/form.php http://www.paa.com.au/contactus.htm

Can anybody please tell me if I've buggered things. The old URLs are correct (without "www." at the beginning) and the new URLs are really straightforward html URLs. Are their rules about redirecting dynamic URLs? If so, that sort of defeats the point, doesn't it?

And just in case, yes, the file I'm uploading is spelt correctly (.htaccess).... I think....

**Learning Newbie** · 10-30-2007, 04:49 PM

Does it work the way you would expect when you upload this?

**stockstreet** · 10-30-2007, 05:09 PM

When I upload it, and then attempt to go to the old URL's

(e.g. http://www.paa.com.au/index.php?opti...d=56&Itemid=72)

I just get a 404 error.

**Learning Newbie** · 10-30-2007, 06:08 PM

Hmm, I'm not a .htaccess expert, but that means something's wrong.

Do you have mod rewrite? Is that the entire code you posted? I think there need to be a few lines at the top about symbian links and whatnot?

**chrishirst** · 10-31-2007, 05:07 AM

actually for the syntax used, I believe mod_redirect is required rather than mod_rewrite.

But same here I'm not a .htaccess officianado.

make sure the file IS .htaccess, with no file name and htaccess is the extension.