I have to redirect an old domain name to a new domain name.

Not difficult and the simple redirect works great.

But, I then want to check for a specific old url and change that on the new domain.

old url: myolddomain.com/directory

new url mynewdomain.com/?p=pageid

no matter what I try I can't get the old url to translate to the new url with a new QS. it translates directly to

mynewdomain.com/directory

Basic .htaccess looks like this:

Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !mynewdomain.com$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^.*$http://www.mynewdomain.com/$1 [R]

Appending this to file doesn't work.

Redirect /directoryhttp://www.mynewdomain.com/?p=pageid

This is getting urgent now - so any help will earn big wet reach from yours truly

Ok - just thought about it differently.

Rather than handling the directory at the old url, I am handling it at the new url.

Far simpler.

gives self a wet reach around