301 Redirect Htaccess Headaches

[whitebark]

Been beating my head against the wall trying to get some 301 redirects to work.

Trying to get:

www.example.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1
www.example.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=150
to 301 to
www.example.ca/article-title/
www.example.ca/different-title/

etc

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.ca$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^name=News&file=article&sid=1(&.*)?$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.example.ca/article-title/?%1 [R=301,NE,NC,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.ca$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^name=News&file=article&sid=150(&.*)?$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.example.ca/different-title/?%1 [R=301,NE,NC,L]

That's where I am at. Any help would be appreciated!

 

[Charles Sweeney]

Are your pages PHP? I can show you how to do it in PHP.

You shouldn't use the Apache access file (usually called .htaccess) if you can avoid it. There are performance and security issues with it: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/htaccess.html#when

I don't know how your index.php is written but when you get to the part where it outputs something, you can use:

header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://www.example.ca/article-title/");
exit;

That's just the gist of it. Again depending on how your site is written, " /article-title/ " above would be the correct article title for the particular request.