301 Redirect / Pretty URLs

[BigFishPhilip]

Hello all,

I was able to get Pretty URL's working great.  Can't get the 301 redirects for the old pages to work though.  I've spent the last few hours trying about every possible scenario and can't get it to work.

General consensus is that my .htaccess file should be something like...

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#php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off
#php_flag register_globals Off
#php_flag session.use_trans_sid Off

# Make sure you have Options FollowSymLinks
# and Allow on
RewriteEngine On

#NEW RULE HERE
RewriteRule ^index\.php\?page=about-us$ http://www.domain.tld/about-us.html

#Rewrites page.shtml as index.php?page
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?page=$1 [QSA]

...but no love.  Funny thing is that I can get pretty much ANY file EXCEPT index.php to take.  If I test it with index.html instead, then it works fine.

Any thoughts?  I'd really appreciate it. 
Philip

[herbshirt]

You may need to delete index.html from your directory. By default your browser will look for that file before index.php

[BigFishPhilip]

Thanks Herbshirt.  I'd already deleted that file someone along the line already.

Any other ideas anyone?

[calguy1000]

You may need to delete index.html from your directory. By default your browser will look for that file before index.php

FYI: that's not a browser issue, that's a server setting.

The server can be directed to be look for
  index.php
  index.whatever
  idx.blah
  index.htm
  index.html

in whatever order depending upon the first one it finds.

[BigFishPhilip]

Thanks Calguy.

Any ideas on getting the redirect to work?  I'm not having any luck with it at all.

[nivekiam]

This will work, but could be a pain if you have a lot of pages

Redirect 301 /old_page.html http://www.example.com/index.php?page=new-page

Found this, it might help:
http://www.isitebuild.com/301-redirect.htm

[BigFishPhilip]

Hello all,

Thanks to those who helped.  I finally was able to get it to work like this...

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rewriteCond %{query_string} page=about-us
rewriteRule ^index.php /speeding-ticket-focus.html? [R=301,L]