So I'm trying to rewrite the following example. Took a look around but couldn't find the correct post that matched this scenario.
Here is a list of layout for old pages:
www.url.com/directory
www.url.com/directory/page1.html
www.url.com/directory/page2.php
I'm trying to rewrite the following way through htaccess:
Redirect 301 /directory /newdirectory
Redirect 301 /directory/page1.html /newdirectory/page1
Redirect 301 /directory/page2.php /newdirectory/page2
However, the first rewrite rule is interfering with old subpages in that path. So for example, using the above rewrite rules, going to:
www.url.com/directory/page1.html
Points the user to:
www.url.com/newdirectory/page1.html
When it should be pointing user to the slug without the original filename extension:
www.url.com/newdirectory/page1
The only way around this that I've been able to manage is to leave out the www.url.com/newdirectory/page1.html rule entirely. But there are a bunch of links pointing to that base path, so I'd like to redirect that.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for the time and help.
url-rewriting redirect rewrite-rules
You need to place the rule for the base directory after the ones for the subpages :
Redirect 301 /directory/page1.html /newdirectory/page1
Redirect 301 /directory/page2.php /newdirectory/page2
Redirect 301 /directory /newdirectory
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We are rebuilding a website for a client from ASP to WordPress. This website will have a different domain, url structure, and file extension. I am only just getting my head around htaccess 301 redirects, and I know enough that I can't do the following:
Redirect 301 http://www.site1.com/about_us.asp https://site2.com/about/
Redirect 301 http://www.site1.com/art-specs/ https://site2.com/specs/
Redirect 301 http://www.site1.com/page/product1/ https://site2.com/product1/
There are about 12 links in total that need to be redirected, and I want to make sure that it is done right the first time as a client's SEO rankings are on the line.
Is there a variation of the above format that I could use? Or a rewrite rule that needs to be done first? Any help (and explanations) would be greatly appreciated!
After looking more into it, I realised that the htaccess file shouldn't need anything other than relative access to the original domain.
i.e. You shouldn't need to declare: http://www.site1.com/about_us.asp since the server and domain should be configured in such a way that /about_us.asp means the same thing.
So the correct answer would be to:
[1] Configure the server (in my case cPanel) by having the original domain added as an addon domain (e.g http://www.site1.com/).
[2] In the htaccess file I would add each of the 301 redirects to the htaccess file:
Redirect 301 /about_us.asp https://site2.com/about/
Redirect 301 /art-specs/ https://site2.com/specs/
Redirect 301 /page/product1/ https://site2.com/product1/
...for each redirect
[3] And finally, adding the following to the bottom of the htaccess file will catch everything else and redirect them to the home page:
RedirectMatch 301 .* https://site2.com
I am not able to find the error in the following Htaccess Code.
Isn't it just a simple 301 redirection?
Redirect 301 flaechenformeln.html http://www.mathespass.at/formeln/flaechenformeln.php
I have also tried to change the redirect a bit, but it is not working.
But however this works:
Redirect 301 /testversion/klasse2/index.html http://www.mathespass.at/testversion/klasse2/index.php
Isn't it the same?
Hope you can help me!
With best greetings
Redirect directive performs starting string match of the REQUEST_URI with the given pattern and it must start with a /.
Try this rule instead:
Redirect 301 /flaechenformeln.html http://www.mathespass.at/formeln/flaechenformeln.php
We are having a problem with URL rewrites on an apache server using .htaccess.
Goal: to have the following URL stripped of its category & subcategory while leaving the generic redirect in place.
Test 1:
Redirect 301 /category/subcategory/product http://www.site.com/product
Redirect works perfectly. A single redirect to the desired page.
Test 2:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/category/subcategory/.*$ http://www.site.com/category/subcategory
Redirect on its own works perfectly for all URLs desired.
The problem is when we have both URLs in a clean .htaccess file, and the redirects are in the proper order (specific first, then general), the general redirect is being used.
Test 3:
Redirect 301 /category/subcategory/product http://www.site.com/product
RedirectMatch 301 ^/category/subcategory/.*$ http://www.site.com/category/subcategory
When we visit www.site.com/category/subcategory/product, the result is www.site.com/category/subcategory/product, That is not the desired result. Instead, we want the URL to be www.site.com/category/subcategory/product,
We have even tried modified the Redirect to:
Redirect 301 /category/subcategory/product http://www.site.com/product [L]
It made no difference.
Please help!
EDIT: Added 3/25/2014
What we are trying to do is provide specific redirects for a group of known products from their old product page to the new product page. We are also trying to add a "catch all" redirect for the remaining unknown products to the category page.
Here is an actual example redirect which works:
Redirect 301 /womens/western-dresses/stetson-cream-empire-waist-ls-western-dress http://www.site.com/stetson-cream-empire-waist-ls-western-dress
If the above redirect is added to the .htaccess file, it works perfectly on its own.
Here is a second example redirect which works:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/womens/western-dresses/.*$ http://www.site.com/womens/western-dresses
The problem is if we have both of the rules together in .htaccess, in the same order as above, the second rule is always triggered. We try to access www.site.com/womens/western-dresses/stetson-cream-empire-waist-ls-western-dress and the result is www.site.com/womens/western-dresses instead of the desired result of www.site.com/stetson-cream-empire-waist-ls-western-dress
For clarity:
if we remove the .htaccess file, the URL 404s
if only the first rule is listed, it triggers perfectly
if only the second rule is listed, the second rule triggers perfectly
if both rules are listed, the second rule triggers.
We have deleted all redirects from the .htaccess file. The only redirects are the below two lines. The issue remains where the first redirect is ignored. We have tried changing the start of the first redirect to ^/womens and ^womens but that change had no effect.
Redirect 301 /womens/western-dresses/stetson-cream-empire-waist-ls-western-dress http://www.site.com/stetson-cream-empire-waist-ls-western-dress
RedirectMatch 301 ^/womens/western-dresses/.*$ http://www.site.com/womens/western-dresses
Your post is a little confusing, so I may be misunderstanding what you are trying to do.
If memory serves, you should not include a leading slash in your pattern when using these directives in a .htaccess file. That usage is reserved for httpd.conf. When these directives are used in a .htaccess file, the leading path components have already been stripped by mod_access. I am guessing this is the cause of your troubles.
For example, this should work (not tested):
Redirect 301 ^category/subcategory/product http://www.site.com/product
RedirectMatch 301 ^category/subcategory/.* http://www.site.com/category/subcategory
As an aside, [L] is mod_rewrite lingo. "Redirect" and "RedirectMatch" are part of mod_access.
EDIT 3/25:
Redirect and RedirectMatch can be fussy when used in .htaccess files, particularly when dealing with non-existent folders and mixed directives. Can I suggest you move directly to mod_rewrite? While it has a steep learning curve, you will never go back once you get the hang of it.
# Assuming you are in a .htaccess under DocumentRoot:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^category/subcategory/product1\.html$ /product1.html [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^category/subcategory/product2\.html$ /product2.html [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^category/subcategory/.* /category/subcategory [R=301,L]
As an aside, this looks like a good candidate for RewriteMap, although you will need to declare the map in your httpd.conf.
I have a domain, but it has no files on the webhost. I want to know if it's possible to do the following with only a .htaccess on my webhost.
But what I want to use this basically for is that I want to redirect my web root http://(www.)mydomain.net to http://domain2.net. And I want http://(www.)mydomain.com/1/ redirect to domain3.net.
Can anybody help me out?
Thanks a lot!
Use the htaccess Redirect line..
i think it would be this (i didn't check to verify it works... but fiddle with it):
Redirect http://mydomain.net http://domain2.net
Redirect http://mydomain.net/1 http://domain3.net
http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/242/How+do+I+redirect+my+site+using+a+.htaccess+file%3F
You can do this with s simple 301 directive mixed with directories:
I would point mydomain1.com to ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/mydomain1 and then in the htaccess in that directory:
Redirect 301 / http://domain1.net/
Then you can repeat the same for site 2: point site to to ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/mydomain2 and in the htaccess for that directory
Redirect 301 / http://domain2.net/
As I'm not strong with apache could someone point me in right direction with this?
I currently have urls like this
www.domain.com/public/my_file.php?query=thing&another=thing
What I'm looking to do is to rewrite my code so i it don't use /public/ part anymore, but after that i still need to support all crawlers and old urls people are linking to.
So how would i do 301 redirect preserving everything that comes after public/ part?
(Example) Need to redirect something like this
www.domain.com/public/my_file.php?query=thing&another=thing
into this
www.domain.com/my_file.php?query=thing&another=thing
with 301 redirect.
Thnaks.
Redirect 301 /public/my_file.php /my_file.php
The query string gets passed along by default.
EDIT:
To redirect everything in the public folder, use this:
RedirectMatch 301 /public/(.*) /$1