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[MAPerformance Admin]

We have an old URL, http://www.maperformance.com/help.php?section=about#services, that we don't use any longer. The thing is, I can't even figure out what the content of that page is supposed to be. What I'm trying to do is redirect that URL to a new location, but even putting a standard 301 redirect in our .htaccess file doesn't work. How can I redirect this URL?

[cflsystems]

this url has query string, you can't use standard 301 redirect. You have to use RewriteCond and RewriteRule to redirect it

[MAPerformance Admin]

Thanks Steve for the direction!

For the record, this is how I did it (in .htaccess):

# Redirect old About Us-Services URL
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/help.php$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^section=about$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://services.maperformance.com [R=301,L]

Unfortunately I couldn't include the hash on the original URL, since that is used for commenting in .htaccess.

[cherie]

This is probably how I would have done it:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} section=about
RewriteRule ^help.php$ http://services.maperformance.com/? [R=301,L]

Assuming you don't want to include the query string in the redirect.