title: joomla - SEO settings and mod_rewrite
body: <p>I'm using Joomla 1.5.14 and I configured SEO as in the following image </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/fj8Mn.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/fj8Mn.png" alt="alt text"></a>
  </p>
  
  <p>Now I need to map a few old URL to the new site</p>
  
  <p>let's say that I need to map htp://mysite/old.html to the new Joomla page</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p><code>http://mysite/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=32&amp;Itemid=70</code></p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I added in my .htaccess file the following</p>
  
  <pre><code>RewriteRule ^old\.html$ index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=32&amp;Itemid=70  #works!!
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>this works fine, but if I use the SEF URL in .htaccess (let's say the above page can be reached with htp://mysite/contacts.html), I obtain a 404 error</p>
  
  <pre><code>RewriteRule ^old\.html$ contacts.html   #this does not work
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Now the question:</strong></p>
  
  <p>Is it possible use SEF URLs in RewriteRule? where am I wrong?</p>
  
  <p>thank you in advance</p>
  
  <p>stefano</p>