htaccess redirects not working

[lesterj]

Hi,

I've been trying to get some 301 redirects setup for the pages of a site that is moving Joomla install to a Wordpress site using the .htaccess. I'm having trouble getting the redirects to go to the new URLs without adding a file extension to the URL.

Here and example:

The original URL of the page is:
example.com/cms/index.php/Class-Newsletters.html

The new URL of the page is:
example.com/site/for-class-of-2017/class-newsletters/

I set the following for the redirect:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
Redirect 301 /cms/index.php/Class-Newsletters.html http://www.example.com/site/for-class-of-2017/class-newsletters/ [R=301,L]

The problem is that the last slash is being removed and the .html is being added to the new URL:
example.com/site/for-class-of-2017/class-newsletters.html

This results in a page not found error.

I've tried adding a $ to the end of the URL in the redirect. This prevents the .html to the new URL, but adds a $ and still ends up with a page not found.

I'm at a loss of how to correct this. Any ideas?

Thanks.

Kurt

[stevenmw]

try

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^contact_us\.html$ http://www.mydomain.co.uk/contact_us.php [R=301]
RewriteRule ^myoldpage\.html$ http://www.mydomain.co.uk/mynewpage.html [R=301,L]