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 A question mark is a special character that should be escaped:<br />
index.php\?pid=12<br />

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A question mark is a special character that should be escaped:
index.php\?pid=12


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I am trying to do a redirect in htaccess but the rule is being ignored.<br />
redirect 301 /index.php?pid=12 <a href="http://www.illumitex.com/" rel="ugc">http://www.illumitex.com/</a><br />
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I know it works bc I have this code and it redirect the domain to www:<br />
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.illumitex\.com [NC]<br />
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ <a href="http://www.illumitex.com/$1" rel="ugc">http://www.illumitex.com/$1</a>&nbsp;[R=301,L]<br />
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What I am trying to do is force some spacific older pages back to the main index page or just / .<br />
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I have also &nbsp;tried:<br />
rewriterule index.php?pid=165 <a href="http://www.illumitex.com/" rel="ugc">http://www.illumitex.com/</a>&nbsp;[R=301,L]<br />
But that is not working either.<br />
What am I doing wrong?<br />
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I am trying to do a redirect in htaccess but the rule is being ignored.
redirect 301 /index.php?pid=12 http://www.illumitex.com/

I know it works bc I have this code and it redirect the domain to www:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.illumitex\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.illumitex.com/$1 [R=301,L]


What I am trying to do is force some spacific older pages back to the main index page or just / .

I have also  tried:
rewriterule index.php?pid=165 http://www.illumitex.com/ [R=301,L]
But that is not working either.
What am I doing wrong?



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