301 Redirects from old shopping cart

[jreimer]

Hi guys,

I am trying to redirect links from my old shopping cart program to my new prestashop install in order to keep my reasonable SEO rankings.

I have tried inserting this into the top of my htaccess file, before the url recreation for my friendly urls, etc:

redirect 301 index.php/AFL-Merchandise/AFL-BBQ-Buddy/flypage.tpl.html http://hisgifts.com.au/afl-merchandise/488-afl-bbq-buddy.html 
redirect 301 index.php/AFL-Merchandise/AFL-Bon-Bons-/-Christmas-Crackers/flypage.tpl.html http://hisgifts.com.au/afl-merchandise/476-afl-bon-bons---christmas-crackers.html
redirect 301 index.php/AFL-Merchandise/AFL-Bumper-Sticker/flypage.tpl.html http://hisgifts.com.au/afl-merchandise/532-afl-bumper-sticker.html 

But somehow when I go to a link for one of these products it just take me to my shop home page, not to the new product page as requested. Am I doing this wrong?

Thanks so much for any help you could provide.

[mrFox]

Try removing the "index.php" bit, so it's just
redirect 301 /AFL-Merchandise/AFL-BBQ-Buddy/flypage.tpl.html http://hisgifts.com.au/afl-merchandise/488-afl-bbq-buddy.html

or do
redirect 301 /index.php/AFL-Merchandise/AFL-BBQ-Buddy/flypage.tpl.html http://hisgifts.com.au/afl-merchandise/488-afl-bbq-buddy.html

If it's still broken, try posting everything in your.htaccess file so we can see if something is conflicting.

[jreimer]

Fantastic, that did it!! It just needed the forward slash before it. Thanks so much!!!!

I can't believe something that had me tearing my hair out over for so long was such a simple fix. Again, many thanks!

Joshua