Title: Issue with redirects
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Issue with redirects

 *  [seanetcetera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seanetcetera/)
 * (@seanetcetera)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-redirects/)
 * I have an issue where search engines are pointing to pages from my previous Drupal
   installation, and I want to use htaccess to correctly direct them, however, everything
   I have tried has failed.
 * I tried posting about at [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/109273](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/109273)
   but I cannot view or add tags to that topic, and it doesn’t show up in the list
   of topics.
 * The issue seems to be centered around the “?q” part of the url I want to redirect(
   [http://www.sean-ward.com/?q=node/95](http://www.sean-ward.com/?q=node/95)).

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 *  Thread Starter [seanetcetera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seanetcetera/)
 * (@seanetcetera)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-redirects/#post-534919)
 * The biggest issue I am facing is that while most of the engines and feed readers
   have added the new URLs for everything, I’m still getting hits, like above, to
   pages that don’t exist. I’m not sure what I can do to solve the problem, as every
   attempt to redirect has failed. I would expect
    `RewriteRule ^/q=node/95$ http://
   www.example.com [R=301,L]` should work, but all I get taken to is the frontpage.
 * If someone knows some .htaccess-fu and can help, please. Attempts at Googling
   an answer have failed to yield anything helpful.
 * The changes from a .htaccess should be instantaneous, right?
 * Oh yeah, using the live headers plugin for Firefox, I noticed that the 301 is
   getting passed, but it’s just getting passed back to the same url, that is, sean-
   ward.com/?q=node/95 has moved to sean-ward.com/?q=node/95.

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## Tags

 * [htaccess](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/htaccess/)
 * [redirect](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/redirect/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 1 participant
 * Last reply from: [seanetcetera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seanetcetera/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-redirects/#post-534919)
 * Status: not resolved

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