There's a node (page) that I deleted from my site. I have attempted to remove it from Google, but they keep scanning for it. They do this for about 3 hours before giving up and believe the node isn't there. The only real harm is a really huge log file and a lot of 404's generated.

I've tried a lot of the examples I found on Drupal.org, but none seem to really work. I have a feeling it's the address Google is using trying to get at. I'm not sure .htaccess can handle the '?q=' part of the line.

http://www.example.com/index.php?q=node/1234&gccid=5810652&gcp=18

The site is on latest 5.19 and uses clean urls. I have no idea where they got their address from but it is the correct node number that used to exist but it was never addressed that way, always with a clean url.

What I've tried in .htaccess:

RedirectPermanent index.php?q=node/1234 http://www.example.com/newpage

Also:

RewriteBase /
RewriteRule index.php?q=node/1234 /newpage [R=301,L]

(yes, I positioned both BEFORE the clean rewrite rules)

But none have any effect on the redirect and all these get sent to the 404 page.

I'm out of ideas on this. Anyone else have ideas how to fix this? Is there a way (or module) that might let me redirect based on a node number? I haven't seen one yet that does that.

Thanks for your help,
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