Need to delete article, but Redirect to new article

[Hawkgirl]

I've seen the "how do I 301 redirect" question a couple of dozen times in my search results (here and at .com) but I haven't seen any answers. (Have also looked at various other forums.)

I have a section and a page within that section that I want to nuke.
Section: http://www.ivfconnections.com/forums...ulator-for-IVF
Page: http://www.ivfconnections.com/forums...fe)-Calculator

In their place, I want this page:
http://www.ivfconnections.com/forums...VF-Beta-Levels

Since the old page was created as an "article" in its own section (so that I could have that one page have a unique layout with a certain widget), I can't just replace its content with the content from the new page (which was created as a "static page").

I am having extreme difficulty figuring out how to do a redirect from the first two URLs to the second URL. I haven't turned on the "mod rewrite friendly URLs" so I am stuck with the content.php bit in the URL. So I can't even do a meta refresh (can't put an HTML page there, since it's not a directory).

The following doesn't work:

RewriteRule ^/forums/content.php/304-Beta-hCG-Calculator-for-IVF http://www.ivfconnections.com/forums/content.php/751-Use-Our-Beta-hCG-Calculator-to-Understand-Your-IVF-Beta-Levels [R=301,L]

(nor do other variations on this, including just ^304-Beta-hCG-Calculator-for-IVF in the rule)

This is obviously one of my weak areas - but there's no way I'm letting my crummy-page-with-good-SERPs get 404'ed.

How can I fix this? I have a really great chance coming up to promote the new page, and I need to get this fixed first!

Many thanks for taking the time to read this. (Eighty people read it at vB.com and nary a response.)

[HMBeaty]

Try this....

Redirect 301 /forums/content.php/304-Beta-hCG-Calculator-for-IVF http://www.ivfconnections.com/forums/content.php/751-Use-Our-Beta-hCG-Calculator-to-Understand-Your-IVF-Beta-Levels

[Hawkgirl]

THANK YOU!

You have made my day! You've made my week! if we ever meet, the first round is on me.

[HMBeaty]

Haha! No problem