Redirect from old static site to new dynamic site

[andco]

I have implemented a cms, which effectively replaces an old site with static pages, but I want to redirect some of the old pages to the new site. The new site is at a different url. So I want to redirect something like:

 

www.oldsite.co.uk/something.html to www.newsite.co.uk/article.jsp?id=104

 

I tried adding the following to .htaccess:

RedirectMatch something.html http://www.newsite.co.uk/article.jsp?id=104

 

But this doesn't work, because the apache url module doesn't look at the get parameter ?

 

How shoud I go about doing this ?

 

I am new to apache webserver, so apologies if this has been answered a million times before.

 

Andrew

[steviewdr]

Do you want to do it on a page per page basis? or automate the rewrite?

 

The simplest way is to put the following in a .htaccess file, in the wwwroot on oldsite.co.uk:

 

Redirect 301 /something.html http://www.newsite.co.uk/article.jsp?id=104

 

That should work fine.

 

-steve