My web uses links which are dynamic set by code in htaccess (bellow):
RewriteRule ^(.*),(.*),([a-z0-9-_.]+),([a-z0-9-_.]+),([a-z0-9-_.]+)$ $4.php?n=$1&z=$2&t=$3&v=$5 [L,NC,NS,NE]
In effect links looks like this (example):
www.mypage.com/$1,$2,$3,$4,$5
I want to redirect dynamic links in htaccess from old to new one which will have a structure like this (without $5 parameter):
www.mypage.com/$4/$1-$2/$3
Redirection is necessarily especially for redirect old links availble in search engines to new one.
Thanks for a help.
I don't have an Apache instance to hand to test against just now but off the top of my head something like this should work:
RewriteRule ^(.*),(.*),([a-z0-9-_.]+),([a-z0-9-_.]+),([a-z0-9-_.]+)$ $4/$1-$2/$3 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9-_.]+)/(.*)-(.*)/([a-z0-9-_.]+)$ $1.php?n=$2&z=$3&t=$4 [L,NC,NS,NE]
The first rewrite redirects your old URLs (1,2,3,4,5) to the new ones (4/1-2/3) using a 301 to tell search engines to drop the old URLs in favour of the new ones.
The second rewrite takes the new format and maps it to your actual script.
Note how the 5th param is dropped when transforming old to new.
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I am upgrading my site which involves new scripts and a different URL
structure. There are currently a few thousand pages so I want to
basically move them in to a subdirectory so that they are not lost.
I am not very confident with htaccess so can someone please confirm that
the first part I have done is correct:
Old URL: http://www.example.com/article/another-dir/page-group/whatever.html
RewriteRule ^article/?$ http://www.example.com/archive/ [R=301,NC,L]
To achieve this: http://www.example.com/archive/another-dir/page-group/whatever.html
Search engines will see the above as a permanent move and in the address bar
it will show the new url. Is this right?
The second part is on the new script - the url's could be improved but I am
unable to change all the script so thought about using htaccess again but am
not sure if it can be achieved like this.
At the moment the url looks like this:
url: http://www.example.com/category/4/categoryname
In the htaccess the current rewrite rule for this type of url looks like this:
RewriteRule ^category/(.*)/(.*)$ category.php?id=$1&slug=$2
Is it possible to change this so that in the url address bar I end up
with this:
http://www.example.com/categoryname
Basically I don't want to see either the number or category/ in the resulting
url as it will be easier for visitors to use - is that possible??
Thanks in advance for any help.
The second question related to passing in URI components for querystring redirect and then hiding those components in the URL I don't think would be easy, if even possible, using RewriteRules.
For the first question though. Given the sample URLs you mentioned, the RewriteRule would need to include capture and backreference if you want to preserve the full URL in the redirection. For example:
RewriteRule ^article/?(.*)$ http://www.example.com/archive/$1 [R=301,NC,L]
I need an expression that would rewrite (actually 301 redirect) old url patterns ended with -0.htm, to new ones -1.htm
so if old url was /path/to/pagination/script-0.htm
new url must be /path/to/pagination/script-1.htm
This must work for any number of folder/subfolder structure.
And must work only for [-0.htm]. Only for urls that end with this pattern.
Any idea on how to accomplsh this?
My htaccess regex knowledge is limited to none.
You could try something like:
RewriteRule ^(.*?)\-0\.htm$ $1-1.htm [R=301,L]
But make sure it's one of the first rules, before the ones that might do a pass-through if a real file.
i am experiencing a very unique problem and i hope someone can help!
so we have recently created a new ecommerce website and we made it live and everything was working great but when we to implement our 301's from our old pages we were getting some wierd things
so the code below actually works
Redirect 301 /directory/ http://mysite.com/index.php?cat=1
this code does not
Redirect 301 /directory/sub_directory/ http://mysite.com/index.php?cat=2
the output when i try to do this redirection is "Invalid parameters specified!" on a blank webpage and in the address bar it has this
http://mysite.com/index.php?cat=1/sub_directory/
we were thinking that maybe the problem is because our old pages were dynamic but mod_rewrite was used to create more readable urls and we have also deleted all our old files because they were interfering with our new pages rendering
any help would be greatly appreciated!
thanks
That is strange, as redirect should only match the specific url listed, where as it looks like its behaving like rewriterule and partially matching the subdirectory url against the first rule..
try putting the more specific rule above the less specific, like so:
Redirect 301 /directory/sub_directory/ http://mysite.com/index.php?cat=2
Redirect 301 /directory/ http://mysite.com/index.php?cat=1
That way the more specific rule will be hit first, and the /directory/ only rule will only match if more specific matches above fail
alternatively, you could try RewriteRules:
RewriteRule ^directory/$ http://mysite.com/index.php?cat=1 [R=301,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^directory/sub_directory/$ http://mysite.com/index.php?cat=2 [R=301,NC,L]
the ^ and $ anchors should prevent any unwanted partial matching
I have a client domain with thousands of pages that are moving to a new domain. The naming convention of the .html has changed, and I know htaccess can handle this somehow.
Here's an example:
old site:
http://oldsite.com/state/cityname-index.html
new site:
http://newsite.com/state/computer-support-cityname-index.html
This is beyond my understanding at the moment. I'd appreciate a little help. Thanks!
If you want to redirect the old website pages to the new one, you can use rewriting like this :
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^oldsite.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/(.+)-index\.html$ http://newsite.com/$1/computer-support-$2-index.html [QSA,R=301]
The first line activates the rewriting in the htaccess.
the second one checks if the current request is for the old website.
if yes, the third line is activated, wich contains a regular expression and a new link to redirect to if that regular expression if matched, the [QSA,R=301] at the end are flags that will affect the rewrite rule.
This rule I wrote to you captures the state (first parentheses) and the cityname (second parentheses) and then it redirects to the new website replacing the $n (where n is the number of the parenthese from before) with the captured content.
The QSA flag (Query String Append) will add any parameter from the old site request to the new generated request.
The R=301 flag will generate a browser Redirection with code 301 (permanant redirect).
For more information about mod_rewrite see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html
I've been searching google for this but can't find the solution to my exact needs. Basically I've already got my URL's named how I like them i.e. "http://mysite.com/blog/page1.php"
What I'm trying to achieve (if it's possible!) is to use rewrite to alter the existing URLS to: "http://mysite.com/blog/page1"
The problem I've come across is I've found examples that will do this if the user enters "http://mysite.com/blog/page1" into the broweser which is great, however I need it to work for the existing links in google as not to loose traffic, so incoming URLS "http://mysite.com/blog/page1.php" are directed to "http://mysite.com/blog/page1".
The 1st example (Canonical URLs) at the following is pretty much what you want:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html#url
This should do the trick, rewriting requests without .php to have it, invisible to the user.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/blog/([^.]+)$ /blog/$1.php
You will need to write a rewrite rule for mapping your old url's to your new url as a permanent redirect. This will let the search engine know that the new, seo friendly url's are the ones to be used.
RewriteRule blog/page1.php blog/page1 [R=301,L]