Apache .hatccess rewrites not working for legacy URLS - apache

Question

I'm trying to rewrite some legacy Joomla URLs on a site that's now using ExpressionEngine as its CMS but they're not working.
The ExpressionEngine URL rewrites, i.e. removing index.php from the URL work fine though.
This is what I've got:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
# This is the one that's not working
RewriteRule /index.php?option=com_chronocontact&Itemid=54 /contact/ [R=301,L]
# Force www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\..+$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%1/$1 [R=301,L]
# Redirect index.php Requests
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[^/]*/index\.php [NC]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET
RewriteRule ^index\.php(.+) $1 [R=301,L]
# Standard ExpressionEngine Rewrite
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(gclid=.*)
RewriteRule ^(.+) /index.php?/ [L,PT]
RewriteCond $1 !\.(css|js|gif|jpe?g|png) [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond $1 !^(assets|css|images|tinymce|js|min|cms|themes|index\.php|admin\.php|favicon\.ico|index\.php|path\.php|php\.ini) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+) /index.php?/ [L]
</IfModule>
Can anyone spot what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

The first thing is the stray RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on that you have at the top. It looks like it belongs to the rule under it, as in:
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\..+$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%1/$1 [R=301,L]
As far as the rule that you have commented that doesn't work, the ? is a reserved character for regular expressions, and your pattern actually says that the second p in /index.php is "optional". Additionally, you can't match against the query string in a rewrite rule, you need to use a rewrite condition and match against the %{QUERY_STRING} variable:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^option=com_chronocontact&Itemid=54$
RewriteRule ^(index.php)?$ /contact/? [R=301,L]
is probably more along the lines of what you're looking for.