Old Site With Non-SEF Joomla Urls, Simple Rewrite to Wordpress SEF URLs

[noxbane]

EDIT: I dont know how to make the URLs not be concatenated

After hours of trying different configs, I just can't get this right. It should be so simple but I am evidentally doing it wrong. I tried using 301 Redirect but the querystring was messing it up (i think). I tried using mod_rewrite and escaping the querystring but that didnt work. I'm not looking for for a single expression to rewrite ALL URLs, I want to do them on a one by one basis.

Examples:

Here is an old URL: http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?op...=article&id=61

I want it to redirect to: http://www.mydomain.com/about-us/


Another example:

http://www.mydomain.com/?option=com_...layout=default

Redirect To

http://www.mydomain.com/need-to-know

[Marc]

Have you tried using a redirect plugin like -
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/
or
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...direct-plugin/

[noxbane]

Marc, Redirection plugin works flawlessly. Thanks a bunch.

If anyone happens to want to weigh in on the way on how to do it with htaccess I'd still like to know just for curiosity's sake.

[Marc]

Glad it helped.