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.

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

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

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

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