Confused! Redirect with a "?" in the URL

[gordong1968]

I am very new to all of this and was looking for some help. I was using cPanel to redirect a URL from a very old shopping cart site to a new website, but it wouldn't give me what I needed. I started looking into .htaccess and mod_rewrite tutorials and am part of the way there, but am still having problems.

 

I have several inbound links to my site that looks like this:

http://leathercatalog.net/cgi-bin/html_web_store.cgi?page=l_fashon.htm

or possibly with extra "junk" after the .htm like this:

http://leathercatalog.net/cgi-bin/html_web_store.cgi?page=l_fashon.htm&cart_id=7044445.5523&store=%%cart_id%%#top

 

Having no idea what I am doing, I wrote the following code and it ALMOST works.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$
RewriteRule ^cgi-bin/html_web_store.cgi(.*)page=l_fashon.htm(.*)$ "http\:\/\/www\.jaminleather\.net\/products_leather_blazers\.asp\?dept\=15" [R=301,L]

 

The only thing messing me up is the question mark in the inbound link. If I go to a browser and change the question mark to anything else, for example an underscore or a plus sign, the link will be redirected. For example, the following will redirect just fine.

http://leathercatalog.net/cgi-bin/html_web_store.cgi+page=l_fashon.htm

It will not WORK with the question mark and unfortunately that is how is appears in search engine land.

 

Can anyone tell me what I am missing here? Thanks so much for the help!

George

[JasonLewis]

Try making this part:

html_web_store.cgi(.*)page=l_fashon.htm

 

This:

html_web_store.cgi\?page=l_fashon.htm