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Originally Posted by mgwashburn

I actually went to the page and noticed that by default after clicking on the link after finding it during an on page search I got this:

https://www.naturalbathbody.com/apollon-shaving-gel.html?category_id=24

I then added the '?category_id=24' to the 301 redirect statement and then it worked.

I guess the product is added to a number of categories at the same time, that's why XC5 adds an extra param to track which category you came from to the page.

It should work without the category_id param as well (moreover, the "canonical" meta tag has no the parameter).

But what Steve says is a different thing. He advises you not to add product_id to the tail of your clean URL, but replace "appolon-shaving-gel.html" with the non-cleanURL version (?target=product&product_id=...).
This makes sense as after all rewrites the script works with this version of the URL anyway.

Originally Posted by kevinrm

If you want to simplify your life, there is a pretty good redirect module for XC5. I've been using it, I like it.

I guess you mean this third-party module:
http://market.x-cart.com/addons/xcart-redirects-by-Nova-Horizons.html