Simple 301 redirect question

I’ve been having problems with this as well and it took some time to figure it out. It definitely is a problem with friendly urls and 301 redirects inside the .htaccess file. We need to write the rule differently than the usual style. Here is a solution that worked for me:

old page: SomeCategory/foo.asp
new page: foo.html

RewriteRule ^SomeCategory/foo.asp$ http://www.mydomain.com/foo.html [R=301,L]

Hope this helps!

Yeah, the redirect in the previous post should work fine -- be sure to put it before the friendly URL redirect. I wouldn’t advise doing a 301 redirect to any page of the form index.php?q=123 because that creates duplicate content.

I just ran into the same problem as the OP. Here's my solution that worked when I updated the .htaccess file:



I had been trying to put this in the .htaccess redirect, but it wasn't working:



Once I changed the redirect to the MODX ID (instead of putting the .html URL alias in the redirect: texasroots.html), it then worked just fine.

Just had the exact same problem.

I was redirecting old URLs to the new ones with:

and got the ?q=oldpage in all my URLs

The following code worked for me:


The ? at the end of the newpage URL somehow prevents any further redirect.