Redirect with .htaccess

[mobile_1]

I am trying to fix a problem where Google has indexed the wrong version of a
URL. I need to redirect the bad version to the good version with 301
redirects.

I've tried a couple of things, but it's not working.

The bad URLs look like this:
/search.php?mode =search&narrow_ cat=2&term=Worl d,%20Hello&page =1

That should redirect to:
/dir/Hello_World

This one doesn't work at all:
RewriteRule
^search\.php\?m ode=search&narr ow_cat=[0-9]{1,2}&term=([A-Z]{1}[a-z]+),%20([A-Z]{1}[a-z]+)&page=1$
http://www.example.com/dir/$2_$1 [R=301,NC,L]


This one works, except it doesn't include the "Hello" and the "World", only
the underscore:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}
mode=search&nar row_cat=[0-9]{1,2}&term=([A-Z]{1}[a-z]+),%20([A-Z]{1}[a-z]+)&page=1$
RewriteRule ^search\.php http://www.example.com/dir/$2_$1 [R=301,NC,L]

Any ideas?

[Kimmo Laine]

Re: Redirect with .htaccess

"mobile_1" <mobile_1@nospa m.invalidwrote in message
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>I am trying to fix a problem where Google has indexed the wrong version of
>a URL. I need to redirect the bad version to the good version with 301
>redirects.

Just use a robots.txt to tell googlebot not to index the wrong page. And
also go ask the Apache questions in an apache group, this is c.l.php...



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[mobile_1]

Re: Redirect with .htaccess

"Kimmo Laine" <spam@outolempi .netwrote in message
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"mobile_1" <mobile_1@nospa m.invalidwrote in message
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>>I am trying to fix a problem where Google has indexed the wrong version of
>>a URL. I need to redirect the bad version to the good version with 301
>>redirects.

>
Just use a robots.txt to tell googlebot not to index the wrong page. And
also go ask the Apache questions in an apache group, this is c.l.php...

Sorry, I didn't know about the Apache group.

Robots.txt isn't as good as a redirect since it abandons the PageRank of the
indexed versions.

I found an answer: use %1 and %2 instead of $1 and $2.