Is there a fix for pages that were indexed under different mod rewrite rules, and then switched mod rewrite formating?

I was using able2know's mod rewrite for a couple of months, and then switched to the advanced mod rewrite from phpbb-seo.com. Though I don't have many pages indexed with Google (just index.php), MSN has indexed quite a bit of my site under the old rewrite rules. Therefore, when someone clicks on a link to my site, referred from msn, they get a 404 error now because my rewrite rules have changed.

Example:
Old rewrite -

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www.handymanxchange.com/post-182.html&sid=e351146f58433fe51d64f774bcf7d0a9

New rewrite -

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http://www.handymanxchange.com/handyman182.html

I'm sure you can do another rewrite or a redirect in .htaccess, I just don't know how it should be formatted.

Yes, for the post it's possible.

Add this after the www prefix rule and before the forum's ones :

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RewriteRule ^pots-([0-9]+)\.html /handyman$1.html [R=301,L]

If you migrated from the able2know mod rewrite, then you should disallow the older URLs in your robots.txt.

adding at least this two in it, after the one advised for the advanced mod rewrite :

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Disallow: /about
Disallow: /forum

Thanks much. Your a lifesaver!

handy1 wrote:Thanks much. Your a lifesaver!

You are welcome.
lifesaver hu, this is too much honor