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I'm running into an issue where 301 redirects on site I switched from Joomla to EE are not working. The link style on the old version of the site is:

http://example.com/index.php?option=com_user&view=reset&Itemid=14

For the redirect, I'm using this line in the .htaccess:

Redirect 301 /index.php?option=com_user&view=reset&Itemid=14 /contact

Since index.php is valid with EE, my assumption is the issue revolves around the query string since a more basic redirect works as indended:

Redirect 301 /about /

routes traffic from the about page to the home page.

How can I redirect these links to the new ExpressionEngine-powered pages or, if the issue is more generic, links containing "index.php?"?

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You need to use %{QUERY_STRING}

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^option=com_user&view=reset&Itemid=14$
RewriteRule ^(.*) /contact? [L,R=301]
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  • That was 99.99998% there! It should be /contact? [L,R=301] otherwise the option=... bit is appended to the redirected URL. Jun 15, 2014 at 5:18
  • Thanks for your help, Max! Not quite wrapping my head around the ? being necessary... my understanding is that means what directly proceeds it can be optional but in this case, it seems to impact what comes after? Jun 15, 2014 at 19:10

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