301 Redirects -- old pages with /? at start not working (Joomla 3)

Question

Our old site had all its urls starting with "/?" . I have now created a Joomla 3 site, and registered all the old urls with a 301 to the new in our htaccess. However, the 301 Redirects are not working....

e.g. Redirect 301 /?old-page /index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=78&Itemid=999

Instead, all my redirects go to our Home page.

Any suggestions?

thanks Geoff

Answer 1

Try:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^old-page$
RewriteRule ^$ /index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=78&Itemid=999 [R=301,L]