Converting from PHPNuke to Wordpress, htaccess redirection.

[gilgsn]

I want to change:

/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3550

To:

/archives/3550

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^name=News&file=article&sid=([0-9]*)
RewriteRule ^modules\.php$ /archives/$1 [R=301,L]

I get this:

/archives/3551?name=News&file=article&sid=3550

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

Gil.

By the way, I wrote a Python script to convert PHPNuke MySQL data to Wordpress: <snip>

[edited by: jdMorgan at 7:20 pm (utc) on Dec. 15, 2009]
[edit reason] No URLs, please. See TOS. [/edit]

[jdMorgan]

If you want to back-reference the sid from the query string matched in the RewriteCond, use "%1" instead of the "$1" (which refers to the first parenthesized match captured in the RewriteRule pattern, as documented in the Apache mod_rewrite docs).

Stick a question mark on the end of the substitution URL to clear the current query string (also as documented).

Also, you should include the protocol and the canonical hostname in the substitution address:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^name=News&file=article&sid=([0-9]*)
RewriteRule ^modules\.php$ [i]http://www.example.com[/i]/archives/[b]%1?[/b] [R=301,L] 

Jim

[gilgsn]

Thanks Jim, it works! I had tried before with the %1, but forgot the ? at the end..

Gil.