301 redirect from query string to simple URL

I've had a good look through the first ten pages of search results for "301 redirects" and can't find the answer so here goes...

I've moved from a crappy old CMS that didn't give my pages nice URLs to one that does and I want to set up a 301 redirect for my key pages.

Current URL: http://www.domain.com/?pid=22 New URL: http://www.domain.com/contact/

I'm using Wordpress and my current htaccess file looks like this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

</IfModule>

Any help would be awesome!

Give this a try. All you need to do is check to see if you are on page X and then redirect to page Y. Consider RewriteCond statements to be 'if' statements. If you need more redirects just duplicate the last two lines and edit the paths.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.com\/?pid=22$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/contact [L,R=301]

You have to check the query string for the value in the "pid" variable and then redirect if the value in that variable matches a page you want to redirect. You can do this with the "RewriteCond" and "RewriteRule" directives like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# Redirect pid=22 to http://www.domain.com/contact
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^pid=22$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/contact [R=301,L]

You can repeat the "RewriteCond" and "RewriteRule" directives to create additional redirects.