Need To Redirect Old Wordpress Post Using htaccess?

I had to do this recently to one of my blog sites. Simply addÂ thisÂ to your .htaccess file for every post your want redireceted. Easy stuff.

redirect 301 /2006/12/18/postname/ http://www.example.com/category/postname/

Here the old post URL,
http://www.example.com/2006/12/18/postname/

will be redirected to new URL,
http://www.example.com/category/postname/

Note that in the definition, first part is the old URL without domain name and the second part is complete new URL. Keep whole definition in one line (Donâ€™t include line brakes using Enter button). Also note where to apply spaces (There is a space between old URL and new URL).

Easy stuff I know, but this text file was taking up space on my desktop and I needed to get rid of it. Why not add it to the blog for me and you later and trash the text file. Cheers!