Is CakePHP's routing messing up my .htaccess 301 redirect?

I just migrated a site to an updated version, but want to put 301 redirects in place for some of the most common entry pages of the site to the开发者_JAVA技巧ir counterparts

So here's the rule I'm adding to the .htaccess:

Redirect 301 /oldhomepage.htm http://www.thesite.com/

It sort of works, but it redirects to

http://www.thesite.com/?url=oldhomepage.htm

Is this some conflict with a CakePHP routing setting?

EDIT: Someone pointed out that it's probably an .htaccess conflict and indeed it is. CakePHP automatically creates an .htaccess file (which was in a child directory) that has the following:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

Is there any way I can easily have the best of both worlds and have my simple, per page 301 redirects and keep CakePHP's routing as well?

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If all of the old URLs end with .htm, and none of your new URLs do, you could edit the CakePHP .htaccess file like so:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.htm$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]

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Why would you not use $this->redirect('http://www.thesite.com/', 301); in your controller?