301 Redirect .php extension to WP pretty links

Hi ??

I recently switched my old fashioned hand coded static site into a nice WordPress one.

However, I want my .php old files indexed in Google to redirect to my pretty WordPress links (without extension).

I tried diverse .htaccess codes but it doesn’t seem to work.

Found a default .htaccess including this code in my root folder (where the new site lies)

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Could this be this one that prevents a 301 redirect from working fine?

Thanks in advance for the replies.

Dom.