301 redirect in htaccess not working

[FrenchFrog]

Hi there

I'm tring to do a 301 redirect to have a "category alias" (I think it would be a smart way to avoid the creation another category and duplicating items, since there is a bunch od subcategories in it)

so basically I would like to achieve a:

redirect 301 /store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=7  http://www.thedomain.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1

so when one clicks on the category 7, they open teh category 1

but unfortunately, it seems that everything after the questionmark is not recognized.

Any suggestions (maybe with a rewrite rule, where I'm no expert?)

Thanks!

[superprg]

Try this as test to see if redirects work for you!
redirect 301 /store/index.php http://www.thedomain.com/store/index...=index&cPath=1

[FrenchFrog]

this works:

redirect 301 /store/test.html http://www. thedomain.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1

but this:

redirect 301 /store/index.php http://www. thedomain.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1

gives me a:

Too many redirects occurred trying to open “http://www.thedomain.com/store/index...index&cPath=1”.

[superprg]

In place of ?, = etc in the first url to be redirected can you put the html values and try?

[FrenchFrog]

I don't understand what you want me to do :-)

my url is:

/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=7

I don't see what I can replace in that

(please note I'm not working with SEO URLs at all, it's pure ZC urls I'm trying to redirect)

[DrByte]

Rewriting addresses that contain & and = parameters is often quite complex in .htaccess.

Try explaining again what you want to accomplish. Pretend you know nothing about htaccess and ways to do redirects. What is the situation you have now and what do you want to end up with? Maybe there's an easier or better way to get there ...