301 redirect with variables in old page URL

[jonboy6t9]

i am just about to launch a new site but want to make sure all the old links get individually redirected to the new pages via the 301 method. i have done this no problem in the past with simple pages e.g. pagename.asp, however my issue is all the old pages are made up with string variables e.g.

OLD PAGES:
page.jsp?id=lcruises/departures2009
page.jsp?type=4&id=contact
page.jsp?type=1&id=groups&page=donnakime s2009

this is what i have tried for the first old link, to no avail. please can someone help me for all 3 types! many thanks in advance!

RewriteRule ^page.jsp?id=cruise_info/princess$ /ship-detail-12.php? [R=301]

[jason]

Although represented as a single string in the browser, URLs actually get split into many different pieces when they are sent to the server. In this case, the QUERY_STRING is split from the URI path and sent as a separate header, so mod_rewrite doesn't see the query string in the RewriteRule directive.

One fix would be to do something like this for each of your redirects:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=cruise_info/princess$
RewriteRule ^page.jsp$ /ship-detail-12 [R=301,L]

Perhaps an easier way would be to continue using the page.jsp file to receive the requests and using it to redirect as appropriate. My J2EE skills are a little lacking, but it shouldn't be increadibly difficult to do. In PHP you'd do something like this:

<?php
header('HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently');

if($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] == 'id=cruise_info/princess') {
    //location headers should contain a full URL
    header('Location: http://www.yoursite.com/ship-detail-12.php');
}
?>

--Jason

[jonboy6t9]

thanks Jason. i had to go the .htaccess route..that worked. one thing i did added was a ?, on the 2nd line, at the end, after to stop the old variable string being placed on the end of the new one redirection.

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=cruise_info/princess$
RewriteRule ^page.jsp$ /ship-detail-12? [R=301,L]

many thnks!