301 redirects - was asp, now wordpress

Essien

I've just finished doing a WordPress site and I want to redirect the old asp urls to the new WordPress ones.

In the htaccess file, above the wordpress stuff, I've added a series of redirects like the following...

Redirect 301 http://olddomain.com.au/default.asp?PageID=18&n=Contact http://www.newdomain.com.au/contact

Is this correct, if not, what's wrong.

I can't remember doing this from asp before so I'm not sure if I'm just missing something simple here.

Thanks

adm

There is a wordpress plugin thats handier than editing .htaccess

http://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/


To do it via .htaccess:

The apache Redirect directive will not work with special characters . You would have to use mod_rewrite.

Heres a tool to do it:
http://seo-website-designer.com/HtAccess-301-Redirect-Generator


e.g. for:
/default.asp?PageID=18&n=Contact http://www.newdomain.com.au/contact

use:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^PageID=18&n=Contact$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^default\.asp$ http://www.newdomain.com.au/contact? [R=301,NE,NC,L]