I have my old website old.com and my new website new.com. I want to create 301 redirects in the .htaccess for some specific pages and some generic 301 redirects as well.
Get parameter redirects:
old.com/a/test?u=blah redirect to new.com/a/test?u=blah
old.com/a/test redirect to new.com/a/test
old.com/a/test.php?u=blah redirect to new.com/a/test?u=blah
As you can see the only thing that changed was the domain name. How can I redirect users to the new domain but also keep their get parameter the same. So regardless of what u=, it forwards the u= parameter to the new URL. Of course if there is no u=, it still redirects to the page (as per second example)
Get parameter without putting get parameter
old.com/a/foo?u=blah redirect to new.com/a/foo
old.com/a/foo redirect to new.com/a/foo
old.com/a/foo.php?u=blah redirect to new.com/a/foo
As you can see, it directs to the new domain but does not carry the u= parameter. Same applies for the second example.
Redirect Directory
old.com/blog redirect to new.com/blog
old.com/blog/23452/how-to-tie-a-tie redirect to new.com/blog
If the site is in the blog directory, regardless of what comes after the blog directory in the URL, it always redirects back to new.com/blog
I am unsure on how to do these types of specific redirects. I only understand how to direct a specific URL like so Redirect 301 old.com https://new.com
I need to redirect https://example.com/?lang=eng to https://example.com/english.html
The problem is that the page https://example.com/?lang=eng doesn't exist anymore, the site was written in php and it was changed to pure html css.
An ordinary redirect like this doesn't work!
Redirect 301 https://example.com/?lang=eng https://example.com/english.html
It is important to redirect this page because I have a lot of external links pointing to it.
I’m having some real problems with 301 redirects in my .htaccess file.
I have about 20 pages on an old site that I need to redirect to pages on a new site. The URL structure of the new site is totally different.
Here’s one that I tried:
Redirect 301 /dan-carr-gear-list/travel-gear https://dancarrphotography.com/gear/travel/
Unfortunately, this doesn’t work.
What happens is that you get redirected to https://dancarrphotography.com/gear/travel-gear/ for some reason.
I just can’t figure it out.
I have a website that I would like to implement a 301 redirect for an entire site (every page on the website) to a single page. Basically I have an old blog and I want to 301 redirect every page on that blog to our Facebook page instead.
When I search google I get the response to do it this way:
Redirect 301 / https://www.facebook.com/whatever
This works, however the problem I am running into is if someone types in a subfolder of the website such as: www.oldwebsite.com/subfolder it will redirect to https://www.facebook.com/whateversubfolder which is not what I need.
I need every possible page on oldwebsite.com to redirect to the single page https://www.facebook.com/whatever. Thanks!
You want to use RedirectMatch:
RedirectMatch 301 ^(.*)$ https://www.facebook.com/whatever
I've searched, tried various examples, and none, other than creating an explicit list of redirect statements seems to work.
The biggest issue I have is that, although I have access to deploy web pages to the site, I do not have access to any web hosting control panel - site access was inherited, and until now it's been fine, but I think that it is either running an old version of apache, or rewrite rules are not allowed.
Anywa, over the years, the site has changed several times, and after registering the site with Google Webtools, I found the list of pages that gave crawl errors, so created an HTACCESS file to deal with these.
Over the years, there have been folders deployed and named in camel case and all lower case, and so all I wanted to do was to redirect all files in a folder to the new folder in the .htaccess file level, i.e.
My .HTACCESS currently has 120 lines, and an example batch are as follows:
redirect 301 /challenge/stanley_steamer.htm /lsr_history.html
redirect 301 /challenge/stanley_steamer.html /lsr_history.html
redirect 301 /Challenge/index.htm /lsr_history.html
redirect 301 /Challenge/Record.htm /lsr_history.html
redirect 301 /Challenge/Stanley_Steamer.htm /lsr_history.html
redirect 301 /Challenge/Sponsors/Avery_Weigh-Tronix.htm /sponsors.html
redirect 301 /contact/index.html /contact.html
redirect 301 /design/details.html /design.html
redirect 301 /design/index.html /design.html
redirect 301 /Design/Engine-drive_train.htm /design.html
redirect 301 /Design/Rear.htm /design.html
redirect 301 /Design/Home_Page.htm /design.html
redirect 301 /Design/index.htm /design.html
As you can see, I have some cases where the folder name is camel, others lower, and other cases where there is a htm and an html file of the same name that is listed in the crawl error log.
All I want to do is, in the example above, redirect all pages from /Challenge/ and /challenge/ to lsr_history.html, but all files in /Challenge/Sponsors/ to sponsors.html.
I also have a huge list of individual team pages that I list one by one and each one redirects to the new team page.
I've tried examples like:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/[Cc]hallenge/ /challenge.html, but this returns a 'Error 404 Not found'.
Any ideas or examples of how I can cut down my htaccess file to simplify this will be gratefully received.
Regards
Martin
I wouldn't bother searching for cases inside the match string for this kind of thing if I could avoid it - have you tried just specifying the RedirectMatch in lowercase, and appending [NC] to the end of every line? (that will tell mod_rewrite to ignore case and match regardless, which may save you some time)
if you have collections of similarly-formatted rewrites, why not group them together with one particular set of rules for each? That way you could cover, for example, all incoming URLs with one subdirectory with one rule, and all incoming URLs with a single subdirectory one with another rule. If nothing else, it could help simplify viewing the .htaccess file :)
(Take everything I suggest with a massive dose of salt, I'm still getting to grips with the black magick of mod_rewrite myself)