301 Redirects?

[slaughteredlamb]

Long story short. Site change means that some URL's that Google and other sites have are now slightly different to the ones they are now and so they get a 404. How can I set-up a redirect so that the old URL now points to the new one?

I've tried adding:

redirect 301 /old/old.htm http://www.you.com/new.htm

to my .htaccess but that's not working.

Is there anything else I can do?

[Mr Anderson]

Replace "301" with "permanent" and see if that makes a difference - that format works for me.

[slaughteredlamb]

Ahh I tried that and that didn't work either but then I tried another URL and that did work so I think it's down to this particular URL.

The OLD URL is:
www.peakoverload.com/blog/photography/lastolite-ezybox-%11-hotshoe.html

Which is an old SEF generated URL based on the articles title etc which is lastolite ezybox - hotshoe.

The OLD SEF component I used replaced all spaces with - and I guess changed the - in the title to %11.

The NEW SEF URL is:

www.peakoverload.com/myblog/lastolite-ezybox-hotshoe.html

If I enter

redirect permanent /blog/photography/lastolite-ezybox-%11-hotshoe.html http://www.peakoverload.com/myblog/lastolite-ezybox-hotshoe.html

This doesnt work because, I think, of the %11 bit. Is there a solution to this? If not it's not that big a deal as it's the only article that is affected in this way.

Cheers for the help!

[JasonD]

You'll need to replace the %11 with an actual 0x11 control character. If the board doesn't break this

redirect permanent /blog/photography/lastolite-ezybox--hotshoe.html http://www.peakoverload.com/myblog/lastolite-ezybox-hotshoe.html

[slaughteredlamb]

Mr Jason Sir. Only just seen your reply. That worked a charm! Thank you very much!!%11!!