mod_rewrite for pretty urls overwrites my .htaccess redirect

[MarkFresh]

Hi

The old version of my site had a typical url of:

http://www.domain.co.uk/digital.asp?menu=media

and I am trying to redirect this to the new version of the page on the new site built on CMSMS, the url in this case is

http://www.domain.co.uk/our-work/web-digital

There are about 10 of these pages that I want to redirect using the .htaccess file (so that users and search engines go to the newest version of the page) so in this example I set:

Redirect 301 ^/digital.asp?menu=media$ http://www.domain.co.uk/my-work/web-digital

but because I use the mod rewrite for pretty urls, namely this:

RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?page=$1 [QSA]

I believe that it cocks up my redirect. Is there a way round this without having to revert to the internal pretty url mechanism?


thanks

Mark


Slightly related to this post http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 059.0.html but I though I should write a new version

[Pierre M.]

Hello,

do you have your rules in this order :
RedirectPermanent ^/digital.asp?menu=media$ http://www.blahblah.uk/my-work/web-digital
then
RewriteCond & rewriterule

This is very webserver level, hence not CMSms specific and you can test it with fake URLs and static files before plugin in CMSms behind.

Pierre M.