htaccess adding query string to 301 redirect - .htaccess

Question

Can sombody help me out with this, im trying to re direct a page using htaccess file but it keeps adding ?c=oldpage on to the end of the new url, example:
http://www.mydomain.co.uk/newpage.html?c=oldpage
i have tried some of the solutions posted here but no luck, here is my .htaccess file:
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} PHPSESSID=.*$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mydomain.co.uk/$1? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.co.uk$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ / [R=301,L]
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^product/(.*).html$ product.php?p=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ category.php?c=$1 [L,NC]
Redirect 301 /oldpage.html http://www.mydomain.co.uk/newpage.html
ErrorDocument 404 /404.php
Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

This is mod_alias (the Redirect directive) and mod_rewrite not playing nicely with each other. Because both modules apply their directives on the same URI in the URL-file mapping pipeline, they don't know to ignore each other since neither directive knows what the other module is doing. Since you're targets overlap, both modules are applying their directives on the same URI and you get a mish-mashed result.
You need to stick with mod_rewrite in this case and move the redirect above the internal rewrites:
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
# redirects
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} PHPSESSID=.*$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mydomain.co.uk/$1? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.co.uk$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ / [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^oldpage.html$ http://www.mydomain.co.uk/newpage.html [R=301,L]
# internal rewrites
RewriteRule ^product/(.*).html$ product.php?p=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ category.php?c=$1 [L,NC]
ErrorDocument 404 /404.php

Answer 2

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^abc\.net$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.abc\.net$
RewriteRule ^example\.html$ "http\:\/\/abc\.net\/example\/" [R=301,L]
RewriteOptions inherit
to a folder, or:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^abc\.net$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.abc\.net$
RewriteRule ^example\.html$ "http\:\/\/abc\.net\/example\.html$" [R=301,L]
RewriteOptions inherit
Don't know much about it, but it's what i use, hope it helps.