Redirect 301 Error, how to fix it ?

[flysurfing]

Dear all,

I have currently a website running under interspire shopping cart.

I am changing my domain name and switching to prestashop too.

I need to do a 301 redirection of each of the category to my new prestashop cart and url.

However, the 301 i am using doesn't work, here it is:

redirect 301 /categories.php?category=red-product http://www.newwebsite.com/9-categorie

When i access to this url: /categories.php?category=red-product no redirection happened to the new website.

Would you have any idea of where the problem could come from ?

Thanks a lot

[Timpet]

is it a .htaccess redirect?
If it is, did you place i right?
perhaps you could display the hole .htaccess file?

[flysurfing]

Hello,

Indeed this text:

redirect 301 /categories.php?category=red-product http://www.newwebsite.com/9-categorie

Is inside a .htaccess file.

I put it in the folder where my old website script is installed.

However it doesn't redirect anything.

Could you please help ?

Thanks !

[Timpet]

Try this

Redirect /category.php http://www.newwebsite.dk/category.php[R=301,L]

[Asad]

Is it batter to see the source codes of such sites which have successful redirect page?

[cagrie]

I got the same issue. after a while I decided to change the website links, then gave up afraid to lose backlinks.

what do to now?