index.htm-301 redirection

I need to redirect my index.htm permanently to index.htm?id=1
I tried this line in the .htaccess file:
RewriteRule ^index.htm$ http://www.site.com/index.htm?id=1 [R=301,L]
Didn't work. I also need www.mysite.com always redirect to www.mysite.com/index.htm?id=1
Can someone help about these two questions of mine? Thank you in advance.

(id=1 is not a functional tag actually.It's been months in adsense and my index page only gets PSA's. I tried every possible way, but can't get any relevant ads if I don't use a tag with index.htm and index.php. Interesting but it happens.)

 

I think you need to add

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ! id=1

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before your RewriteRule, otherwise it will redirect even when you have id=1 specified

 

Johnt, I added

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ! id=1

RewriteRule ^index.htm$ http://www.site.com/index.htm?id=1 [R=301,L]

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But I get an Internal Server Error.

 

Ah, yes. There shouldn't be a space between the ! and id=1, so it should be

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !id=1
RewriteRule index.htm index.htm?id=1 [R=301,L]

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cheers

John

 

It's early in the morning so maybe I'm missing something here but if using .htaccess why not simply use the following much easier format which has always worked for me.

Redirect 301 /index.htm http://www.domain.com/index.htm?id=1

If it works great, if not I need more coffee before I read or respond to posts

 

Thank you John, it's ok now Tried the same redirect with index.php too(pointing to index.php?id=1) but there are other queries in the script using index.php(like index.php?action=sc&id=2, etc.). The redirect gets these queries into infinite loops.

 

If there aren't too many different variables which get passed to index.php, you could just have a separate RewriteCond for each one, only doing the rewrite if none of them are there, e.g.

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !action
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !id
RewriteRule index.php index.php?id=1 [R=301, L]

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John

 

Didn't take into account using the index for other queries, guess I needed more coffee

 

If you tell me how to get out of this, I'll make espresso for you myself, hrblcantra