301 redirect issues

[EclipseLegal]

Hi all,

I'm hoping someone will be able to help me with an extermley frustrating problem with 301 redirects in .htaccess.

Basically I'm trying to redirect some old pages (from our old website) that stil rank to the new equivilent.

For example -

old url =

www.domain.com/frames/news/company-news/news-reader.php?newsStoryID=395

New

www.domain.com/news/article-title

I've tried the simple

redirect 301 /frames/news/company-news/news-reader.php?newsStoryID=395 http://www.domain.com/news/article-title

But this doesnt work. I've also tried -

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^newsStoryID=395$
RewriteRule ^/news-reader.php$ http://www.domain.com/news/article-title/? [L,R=301]

Could anyone help? I've followed lots of tutorials that all match the above but it just doesn't work! The only other thing within the htaccess file is from wordpress for pretty permalinks -

BEGIN WordPress

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]</ifmodule>

END WordPress

Many thanks in advance!

[KeriMorgret]

Not a direct answer to your question, but I personally use and like the Redirect plugin for Wordpress. Have you tried something like that? I'm not an htaccess expert, so can't help you out otherwise.

[EclipseLegal]

Thanks for the reply. I've taken a look at the plugin (don't really like usings them and normally just write my own) but it doesn't look to be able to handle historical pages - from before the site was build in wordpress.

[KeriMorgret]

My mistake, it's the Redirection plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/), not Redirect. I use it on my site, and use it to redirect incoming links from another domain that's blanket 301ing to my site, and it was never on wordpress. There's an easy way to look at the 404s to your site and set up a redirect from the 404 page (handy if someone did a typo on a URL to you, accidentally added a period to the hyperlink, etc.)

[EclipseLegal]

Thanks for the link, the plugin works a treat! Life saver.