manual redirect old index.php to new index.php

index.php, redirect, multiple redirect

[tadao]

Hello,

I have a problem with old indexed page redirection.
I used to have a simple php site and now I changed into a CMS website.
I had a few php (about 10)files which I want to redirect manually to defined pages of the CMS. For ex:

http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?pages=contactold

--->

http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?page=contactnew&hl=ch

What should I do?

Thanks for help

[g1smd]

Do you want to use the new script to serve the content, but carry on using the same URLs to access that content (recommended)?

Or, do you want to use new URLs to access the content, and redirect requests for the old URL to some new URL? The latter method may see a reduction in traffic for some time while searchengines adjust their listings.

[tadao]

Thank you for your attention @g1smd

The second option. I want to delete de old php files and redirect the requests to the new URLs
The traffic reduction is not a problem.

[g1smd]

Just because the files on the server have changed name, there's no reason why you can't continue to use the same URLs to access that content! The action of a server is to map external URL requests to internal resources found inside the server to serve that content.

However if you insist on using new URLs, now is the time to do it properly, using a more friendly format than http://www.example.com/index.php?page=contactnew&hl=ch which has the unfortunate problem that http://www.example.com/?page=contactnew&hl=ch is a duplicate of it.