htaccess redirect help please

[cwe]

I've recently migrated one of my vB 3.8 forums to XF. The XF site went live today. Unfortunately, I've got a small problem that I only noticed now after the site went live.

I had several pages on my old vB site which I need to redirect to the new URLs on the XF site. The old URLs were all of the form:

https://www.mydomain.com/index.php?p=pageidentifier

I need to redirect them to:

https://www.mydomain.com/pages/pageidentifier/

I added the following two lines to my XF .htaccess file:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} p=([-a-zA-Z0-9_+]+)
RewriteRule ^/?index\.php$ /pages/%1/? [R=301,L]

The redirects work. URLs to the old custom pages are resolving to their new equivalents. However, something about this rule breaks the little pop-up that you get when you hover the mouse over a member's username. If I comment out those two lines, the pop-ups work again.

Are there any .htacces / mod rewrite gurus here that can help me with a different rule to effect the rewrite that doesn't break the member info pop-up?

I only know enough mod rewrite stuff to get into trouble. If there isn't a way to handle the redirects elegantly (with pattern matching), how would I hard code redirects for each specific page?

 

[cwe]

Never mind, I figured out I could replace the first line like so:

    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} p=(news|page\-two|another\-page|etc)

and it works. I also added the page identifiers used in that line to the "Disallowed text in user names" name validation section in the ACP.

Everything seems to be working now.