301 redirects for seo urls

Hello,

I have some old blog posts that I have removed and I want to redirect the links to them to go to my main blog page. I use seo urls.

So I tried this:

Redirect 301 /blog/old-article /blog

but the result is still the 404 page, and this shows as the url in the searchbar:

http://mywebsite.com/blog/?_route_=blog/old-article/

I have searched the forums for someone with a similar problem but I can't find anything. Please help!

The /blog should be the full url like http://yourdomain.com/blog

You can also add the following just after
RewriteBase /
You may need to clear a browser cache though.

Great that worked! I had to put it immediately after "rewrite base /" as you said, because when I just added it to the bottom of the .htaccess file it did not work.

Thanks so much