Help me on 301 redirection using .htaccess

Hello SEO Professionals,
I am new on this 301 redirection using .htaccess. I want your suggestions how to do this perfectly and search engine friendly. My task is to rewrite my site URLs. I am giving one example bellow:
/folder/company.php
/folder/tools.php

i want to rewrite this above URLs to the urls like below

/folder/software_company.php and
/folder/Software_tools.php. So, please give your suggestions on this problem.

Thanks in advance,
Sekhar.

I hope you will find your answer here


this is what i found from net for this thread for more information you can check this
www[dot]isitebuild[dot]com/301-redirect.htm

and please share here if it will work and you found any other solution so we can know how this done..

After you have created the HTACCESS like mentioned in the post above, put this within the file and upload it to your website root folder





##Replace www.yourdomain.com with the URL of your website.

Let me know if this works for you.


Cheers!

Are you wanting to rewrite or redirect? The two are not the same thing.

I'd also have to question why you are considering this. URL rewriting would normally be use to convert a URL with a query string into a more static looking URL, for example: view.php?id=7&cat=5 to /category/product.html

And from the examples you've given you appear to be wanting to get your keywords in your URL. The benefit you'd get (miniscule at best, more likely nothing perceptible) would be far outweighed by the disruption to your current SERPs from changing URLs.