301 redirect... just can't figure it out

I need to redirect something like this:

http://www.abcd.com/abcd/$state-$county-$city.html

To

http://www.abcd.com/1234/$state-$city.html

So basically just get rid of the '$county'.

I've tried two things...

RedirectMatch 301 ^/apartment/(.*)-(.*)-(.*).html http://www.abcd/forrent/$1-$3.html

This redirected me to a url (example): state-city.html?state=WA&countyurl=King&cityurl=Seattle


AND

<?
$state = $_GET['state'];
$county = $_GET['county'];
$city = $_GET['city'];

header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
header( "Location: http://www.rental-apt.com/$state-$city.html" );
exit();
?> 

PHP:

This just redirected me to a 404 page


Can anyone please shed some light on this?

Thanks!

 

I don't really understand what you're saying... the state, county, city are dynamic variables. It is not just one static page I'm trying to redirect. All trafffic directed to url format $state-$county-$city.html needs to be redirected to $state-$city.html

 

Try this:

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