How to redirect

I'm transferring my site from static pages which are all called
www.mysite.com/[productcode].html, to a PHP solution that will have one standard
product page (product.php) and will take the product code to display
as a parameter eg www.mysite.com\product.php?id=12345

I'd like to make sure that all search engine links and other links
that currently go straight to an HTML product page will still be able
to find the correct page, so I thought I'd see if it can be done with
a .htaccess redirect.

eg

redirect *.html *.php?id=????? (syntax obviously not perfect!)

I'm hopeless at the expression parsing bit of htaccess and wondered if
anyone has done a similar thing before. I will need to be able to
exclude certain files (eg index.html) from the redirects, although I
could even get round this if it's not possible.

Andy Rigby <ecol1111 RemoveThis @yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
 > to find the correct page, so I thought I'd see if it can be done with
 > a .htaccess redirect.

I think you'll need some rewrite rule in order to do so.
See the documentation for mod_rewrite.

Davide

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