: How to redirect an old url to a new url via htaccess? Website uses Wordpress Possible Duplicate: .htaccess Redirect Old Threads We had quite a hefty news site which had very ugly

@Lengel546

U can use this .htaccess

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([0-9A-Za-z]+)$ /index.php?page= [L]
# 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
Redirect /index.php?id=3&nid=91 mediwales.com/this-is-my-pretty-permalink

Problem is u have to add every redirect manually (See below)
The .htaccess is the same as yours, except the

Redirect /index.php?id=3&nid=91 mediwales.com/this-is-my-pretty-permalink

The following would be my prefered way

Because you dont need the rewrite rule for every page.
The way is to get pretty-permalink running on your old host. Goal is to have the same pretty-permalink on both domains, than u can easily use a 301 redirect and avoid duplicate content.
Put this on your.htaccess on the old domain.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*) mediwales.com/ [R=301,L]


If you type www.domain.com/this-is-my-pretty-permalink in your browser you will be redirected to mediwales.com/this-is-my-pretty-permalink
Depending on your cms and/or you are using the same page structure, then u dont need the pretty-permalinks on the old host. www.domain.com/index.php?id=3&nid=91 should route to mediwales.com/this-is-my-pretty-permalink
Hope this helps

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@Eichhorn148

Use .htaccess to redirect with the following code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([0-9A-Za-z]+)$ /index.php?page= [L]
# 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
Redirect /index.php?id=3&nid=91 mediwales.com/this-is-my-pretty-permalink

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