I\'ve been struggling with some htaccess redirects. I just spent some time reading and searching on stack and couldn\'t get an anwser that works with my scenario.
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You can use this rule:
RewriteRule ^menu\.php$ /new-page-name? [L,R=301]
Take note of trailing ? in the end which is used for stripping off any existing query string in the original URI.
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