.htaccess redirect question (reg. ex.)

hi,

im finally done with the new cms for one site, but now the paths are completely different. i know i can do some basic redirects with .htaccess like

Redirect 301 http://www.mydomain.com/classic/page.asp http://www.mydomain.com/page.php

but how does it work with additional parameters? i have do redirect all those pages with parameters too:

http://www.mydomain.com/classic/detail.asp?id=254
http://www.mydomain.com/detail.php?id=254

anyone good in regular expressions?

 

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=23044

 

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^classic/([^.]+)\.asp$ http://www.domain.com/$1.php [R=301,L]

 

great, it works now.
but i still dont understand why it is "$1.php". shouldt it be something like "newpage.php?$1" because i need my parameters "$1" AFTER the ".php"?
i assume $1 are the first parameters here as defined by regex, or am i on a wrong track here?

 

Where's the URL change in...

.asp?id=254

and

.php?id=254

It's .php and asp. You don't need it at the number spot if the numbers stay the name.

 

ah ok.
guess i should find a good book about this topic next time im in a bookstore.