htaccess reditrection rule to /wiki/

[Alfa1]

As my site moved from vb3 to xf there was a need for a htaccess 301 redirection from /forum/ to /forums/
This seems to cause problems with VW as GWT lists many crawl errors for /forums/showwiki.php?title=x
It seems to me that I need to address this in htaccess somehow by adding a rule to 301 redirect from
/forum/showwiki.php?title=x
to
/wiki/x

WOuld this work?
If yes, could you advise a redirection?

[pegasus]

It depends how the rest of your rules are setup. In a basic sense, this would work:

RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^forum/showwiki\.php\?title=(.+) wiki/$1 [L,R=301]

[Alfa1]

Unfortunately that doesnt seem to work.

THis form does work however:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} b=(\d+)
RewriteRule ^forum/blog.php$ /ams/%1? [L,R=301]

Can something similar be done for showwiki?

[pegasus]

If you did that for showwiki, it would look like this:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} title=(.+)
RewriteRule ^forum/showwiki.php$ /wiki/%1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^forum/showwiki.php$ /wiki/ [L,R=301]