Why isn't this redirect working?

[wjb316]

Redirect 301 /reviews/pokerstars.html http://www.beatnolimit.com/poker-site-reviews/pokerstars-review

This redirect fails on every single one of my review pages. I can't figure out what's wrong with it for the life of me. Every other redirect works fine.

It keeps screwing up and sending people to this address:

http://www.beatnolimit.com/poker-site-reviewspokerstars.html

It's not adding that little slash at the end of the word "reviews" and before the word "pokerstars"

[MJ]

Are you using redirection? If so I highly advise not - I had over 200 just dissapear one day and it was a nightmare redoing it all.

[wjb316]

MJ, what happened exactly?

I'm redirecting every page on the site because I moved from a static html site to wordpress. It's been a pain but I believe that's the only way to do it.

[wjb316]

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^go/([^/]*)\.htm$ /?hrtrooms=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.html$ $1 [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^redirect/([^/]*)$ /?hrtbanners=$1 [L]

RewriteRule ^download/([^/]*)\.htm$ /?droom=$1 [L]


# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

# protect the htaccess file
<files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</files>

# disable the server signature
ServerSignature Off

# protect wpconfig.php
<files wp-config.php>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</files>

# disable directory browsing
Options All -Indexes

# set the canonical url

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^beatnolimit\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.beatnolimit.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Redirect 301 /reviews/party-poker-review.html http://www.beatnolimit.com/poker-site-reviews/party-poker

(and from here on out are the rest of the redirects.

Here is a related post I made somewhere else. The guy has great responses but it's over my head. I'm at the point where I'll pay someone or write a batch of articles for free if anyone can help me get this htaccess working and looking good.

Funky 301 problem

[Unknown Webmaster]

I think you should take a look at this plugin:
Redirection - Manage 301 redirections without modifying Apache | Urban Giraffe

I used it on one of my sites because I didn't know anything very much about .htacces at the time, and now I have grown quite fond of it.

I could probably help you change your .htaccess, but I think you should use the plugin instead, so you aren't dependent on someone else.

[wjb316]

Sweeeet! Thanks a ton dude. That's perfect!

[johnmac009]

redirection not good for SEO purpose, in opinion.