Hi Folks, I am still trying to understand rewriting and I am sorry for the basic question. We have just upgraded a Joomla site from 1.5 to 2.5. The site has typical articles and also a Link Directory. To rebuild, we built the new site in a new separate folder. We imported all articles, images etc into the new build so article names stay the same(mostly), the link directory entries were imported into a new link manager that has a different url structure. So our basic URLs are like this : old format: MJ/hospitality/hospitality-news/hotel-industry/1679-an-article-title new format: MA/hospitality/hospitality-news/hotel-industry/1679-an-article-title (My proposed rule for that is : RewriteRule ^MJ/(.*) http://www.example.com/MA/$1 [R=301,L]) However: My link directory urls go from : Old : http://www.example.com/MJ/wsn/hotel-/a-great-hotel-759.html New : http://www.example.com/MA/micedirectory/10277-a-great-hotel (there is no file type) From what I understand, my suggested rule will not work for the link directory urls. While the actual listing text part DOES NOT change, the bit I dont understand is - can I get a rule that deals with the different ID-number and in a different part of the URL (I cant change the ID location from what I understand - its part of the SobiPro database system). So - is it possible to have two rewrite rules that trap these two situations. My main aim is to still direct already well indexed traffic without a "page not found" error as much as possible. Thanks so much.