OK, If I make it the first redirect then the redirection works - regardless of what is written after the 'c-21.html'.

However the redirect is retaining the erroneous URL data after redirection. It is adding the '?blahblahblah" to the end of the new URL. I want it to dispose of this so all the redirects are routed to just one URL. How do I instruct it to not include this unwanted data in the new URL?

Thanks

I thought that may do it but still nothing. Maybe I am entering it wrong? Here is the code in .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /test/

RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L

]RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /test/index.php [L]

RewriteRule ^-c-21.html(.*)$ http://www.mysitename.com/test/category/t-shirts/dolphin_tshirts [R=301,L

]

The redirect just doesn't happen.

EDIT: If I write a standard redirect : Redirect 301 /test/-c-21.html then it will redirect to the desired page but it will retain the ?blahblah and add it to the new URL. I want it to work like this but discard the ?blahblahblah after redirecting.

Just to calrify I need a URL that has

/-c-25.html?blahblahblah

to change to:

/dolphin_tshirts

Regardless of that is written in the blahblahblah part.

I have been looking at the SEOmoz redirect guide for some advice but I can't seem to find the answer : http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection

I have lots of URLs from a previous version of a site that look like the following:

sitename.com/-c-25.html?sort=2d&page=1

sitename.com/-c-25.html?sort=3a&page=1

etc etc.

I want to write a redirect so whenever a URL with the terms "-c-25.html" is requested it redirects to a specified page, regardless of what comes after the question mark.

These URLs were created by our previous ecommerce software. The 'c' is for category, and each page of the cateogry created a different URL. I want to do these so I can rediect all of these URLs to the appropraite new cateogry page in a single redirect.

Thanks for any help.