On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 5:51 AM, John Allsopp <john at johnallsopp.co.uk> wrote: > RewriteRule blogViewer(.*)$ oldSite/blogViewer$1 [R,L] > I think it's giving a 302 where I think I want a 301 .. so how do I do that? Tsk, tsk - I "think"? Easy to be sure what it's returning: wget --spider --server-response http://www.johnallsopp.co.uk/blogViewer.php?blog=2012 OK, so a look at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriterule suggests changing your rule above to: RewriteRule blogViewer(.*)$ oldSite/blogViewer$1 [R=301,L] Untested, but HTH, -- Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ hassan.schroeder at gmail.com http://about.me/hassanschroeder twitter: @hassan