Lot’s of ways to do it probably. Best for this would be a RewriteRule for your old URL pattern... I tested this only a little and the actual rules will differ slightly from environment to environment (e.g. this is installed under /modx/ in my web server, thus the /modx/ references in the code below), so you may need to do some research on authoring RewriteRules in general or for your specific server, but it would be something like this to send the user to a page with the alias equal to a former ’option’ parameter:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^option=([^&;]*)$
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /modx/%1 [R,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# If your MODx installation is in a subdirectory, change the following line to match the physical
# path to the "root" of the site as follows:
# RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /path/to/subdirectory/index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA,NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /modx/index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA,NC]
Obviously, this is limited and still keeps the option= parameter on the url, but it is a start and you should be able to customize those rules from here with just as much ease as I could.
Unfortunately, trial and error is the best way to handle mod_rewrite rules, and lots of Googling...unless you’re already a guru