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Graham
Graham

Reputation: 1473

301 redirect to new page when the old one is deleted?

I deleted a forum from a subdirectory to a subdomain. The one in the subdirectory was only like 2 weeks old, but one of the pages gets a lot of hits. But, it no longer exists. It now exists in the new subdomain. Can I create a 301 redirect from the non existant page from the subdirectory to the existing duplicate page in the subdomain?

I tried:

redirect 301 /forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=45 http://forum.hollywoodnose.com/questions/126/alternative-ways-to-look-younger

But this doesn't work... Like I said /forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=45 no longer exists. But, it is the same as http://forum.hollywoodnose.com/questions/126/alternative-ways-to-look-younger. /forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=45 is indexed though... How can I make this 301 redirect? Thank you

Upvotes: 0

Views: 318

Answers (1)

TerryE
TerryE

Reputation: 10888

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase   /

RewriteCond   %{QUERY_STRING}  \bf=30\&t=45\b
RewriteRule   ^forum/viewtopic.php$ \
   http://forum.hollywoodnose.com/questions/126/alternative-ways-to-look-younger [R=301,L]

Upvotes: 1

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