Rewrite rule that's killing me!

I've been trying to do the following:

index.cfm?ci_id=7486&la_id=1

Redirects to

www.test.com

But the "?" just kills me each time. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks so much...

P.S. I moved an old CFM based CMS to Dotnetnuke and a few pages that I need to add a 301 redirect to... I tried using wildcards *7486* but I keep getting a 404 error?

Not being intimately familiar with IIS's URL rewriting, I would guess that it works the same way as others: by looking at the path only and not the query string. You have to do something specific to have it look at the query string.

But a 404? Does index.cfm not exist? Should you be redirecting from that instead?

Thanks for the reply, index.cfm does not exist in that site. My guess is, as soon as it see's the "?" it breaks the redirect. When I remove the "?", the redirect works?

Thanks

Right. Because it matches against the path and not the query string. You have to remove the query string to get it to match, then optionally add in something to check the query string (if you really do need that).

Using the URL Rewrite Module