Redirects with coldfusion legacy code

[mattshoe Profile]

We have absorbed a site that was ColdFusion so all of the links have the "?" parameter as in
http://www.somesite.com/?p=DogSearch

We need the page to redirect our new site, but the .htaccess file won't allow


RewriteRule ^/?p=DogSearch$ http://www.NewSomeSite.com/about/who-we ... ation.html [NC,R=301,L] because of the "/?p=".

However RewriteRule ^p=DogSearch$ http://www.NewSomeSite.com/about/who-we ... ation.html [NC,R=301,L] does not redirect.

Also, is there a way to do a toplevel redirect as in redirecting www.somesite.com and changing the url name to www.NewSomeSite.com? We have reassigned the DNS so all of the pages on NewSomeSite.com show as SomeSite.com.

Thanks and Cheers!

[HeliconAndrew]

Hello,

I may have got the questions wrong, but the syntax for URLs with querystring is:

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Host} ^www\.somesite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^p=([^&]+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.NewSomeSite.com/%1 [NC,R=301,L]

So any request like http://www.somesite.com/?p=XXXX will be redirected to http://www.newsomesite.com/XXXX

Regards
Andrew