We have an existing site, let's call it ourdomain.com. We moved content over from a site that is shutting down, let's call it legacydomain.com. We pointed the legacy domain at our server to the /public_html/ folder.
What I need is an .htaccess that will redirect legacydomain.com or legacydomain/anything-here to ourdomain.com/legacydomain/ with nothing else appended to the URL.
However, I also need a few specific URLs to redirect to certain destinations, and they don't really follow a pattern. For example:
legacydomain.com/something.html to ourdomain.com/legacydomain/something.html
legacydomain.com/another.html to ourdomain.com/legacydomain/folder/another.html
This is what I have tried:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.legacydomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.ourdomain.com/legacydomain/$1 [R=301,L]
Redirect 301 /something.html http://www.ourdomain.com/legacydomain/another.html
It mostly works, but if I visit legacydomain.com/anything-here it doesn't even attempt to rewrite, it just keeps the domain the same and gives a 404. And also I have a feeling that even if it did work, something like legacydomain.com/anything-here/more-stuff would get rewritten as ourdomain.com/legacydomain/anything-here/more-stuff which I don't want.
Only other thing in the .htaccess is rewriting non-www to www, and the standard WordPress stuff. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Everything above should have an http:// and www in front for the examples, but it wouldn't let me post that many "links".
For each specific rewrite you would need two lines, as follows. Depending on your existing config you may need to add a slash at the beginning of the RewriteRule in front of something.html if this doesn't work.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} legacydomain.com
RewriteRule something.html http://ourdomain.com/legacydomain/something.html [R=301,L]
Then you would use a catch-all for everything else.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} legacydomain.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://ourdomain.com/legacydomain/ [R=301,L]
Personally, I would go for the simplest solution which doesn't use mod_rewrite. First, just redirect the specific pages to wherever they need to go.
Redirect 301 /something.html http://ourdomain.com/legacydomain/something.html
Redirect 301 /another.html http://ourdomain.com/legacydomain/another.html
Then, simply redirect everything else to the base URL.
RedirectMatch 301 (.*) http://ourdomain.com/legacydomain/
These must be put in your .htaccess file before the RewriteEngine on statement.
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I'm having an issue with some htaccess rules which I thought would be simple. I have some nice SEO friendly URL rewriting in place as below
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(index\.php|/images|/templates|/views|/ajax|/uploads|/robots\.txt|/sitemap\.xml|/favicon\.ico|/scripts|/cron|/combine.php|/js|/css)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?ref=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
This all works well and I want to keep this. I also wish to rewrite some old pages which Google WMT is reporting as 404's to the new equivalent and for that I'd like to use:
Redirect 301 /about_us http://example.com/about-us
The problem I have is that the URL that the browser is directed to is:
http://example.com/about-us?ref=about_us
The about_us is the old link and about-us is the correct link. If the htaccess redirected to example.com/about-us then the other SEO friendly rewrite rule will pick it up and show the page but eh extra ?ref= parameter is confusing it. I am guessing the two rules are conflicting to a degree but is there a way to get the two rules to work together e.g. redirect without the extra ?ref= parameter? My knowledge of htaccess is basic to say the least so I am a little stuck on this one.
Thanks in advance
Redirect and RedirectMatch are part of mod_alias, while the rewrite rules are part of mod_rewrite. The problem you're running into is when you mix the two, both modules affect the same request, thus two things happen when you only want one. In this case, you need to stick with just mod_rewrite and use this instead:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^about_us /about-us [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(index\.php|/images|/templates|/views|/ajax|/uploads|/robots\.txt|/sitemap\.xml|/favicon\.ico|/scripts|/cron|/combine.php|/js|/css)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?ref=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
Note that the rule that redirects comes before the rule that routes to index.php.
I've got the following 301 redirect in my .htaccess
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteRule ^old-site\.com,$ http://www.new-site.com/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]
If i visit
old-site.com
I am redirected correctly.
However, if I visit www.old-site.com, then it doesn't work.
Is there a way of effectively ignoring the www
Edit
There are several entries like this...
for example:
www.old-site.com/page-a-242.html to www.new-site.com/page-a
RewriteRule ignores the domain, so your first rule could be just
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.new-site.com/? [R,L]
For the other specific mappings you might use RewriteMap. See txt: Plain text maps for details on how to use it.
The drawback with RewriteMap is, that it can only be used in the main server config or in a virtual host environment.
Hi I tried various methods with modewriter in htaccess shown in other threads. I want to redirect my url from www.example.com/categories.php?category=1 to www.example.com/categories/science.
I would really appreciate an example too where I'm wrong. Thank You.
Assuming that it is just this one URL you want to redirect it would be like:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^category=1$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^categories.php$ www.example.com/categories/science/? [L,R=301]
This is in case you are using a .htaccess file, otherwise add a prepending slash:
RewriteRule ^/categories.php$ www.example.com/categories/science/? [L,R=301]
The querystring wil be discarded. Only put [R] if you want to show it to the user in the addressbar of the browser. Consider which status you want to serve, Google likes 301 if it's permanent.
Next you have to catch the incoming request with an index.php in the directory www.example.com/categories/science
good luck!
I have this url
http://www.mmametals.com.php5-20.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/?page_id=61
and i want to redirect to the root like this
http://www.mmametals.com.php5-20.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com
here is my htaccess
RewriteEngine on
redirect 301 /?page_id=61/ http://www.mmametals.com.php5-20.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com
but nothing is happening...any ideas
Also I was wondering if there is a way also in .htaccess to delete a duplicate /about ...so for example if the url is
http://somesite.com/about/about
it will rewrite the rule to always be
http://somesite.com/about
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page_id=61$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mmametals.com.php5-20.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %(REQUEST_URI) ^/about/about[/]?
RewriteRule (.*) http://somesite.com/about? [R=301,L]
should do it.
I don't know the exact answer off the top of my head as I don't work directly with apache that much any longer, but I think you need to look into apache's mod_rewrite module. Try taking a look at:
Apache's mod_rewrite documentation
This post about blocking certain URLS
I'm restructuring a web site with a great deal of content currently parked at URLs that look like this.
http://string.domain.com/year/month/dd/string-pulled-from-title
For various reasons, I'd like to park all new content at URLs that looks like this
http://www.domain.com/blogs/string/year/month/dd/string-pulled-from-title
I'd like to make the change for future content, but don't want all the old stuff to go 404.
I believe a 301 redirect rule in my htaccess will do the trick, sending all referred traffic coming in through old links to the new formats.
But what should this rule look like? I've read a few tutorials but haven't found this exact case in any examples.
Note, I don't want to do this for all subdomains, only for about 10 specific ones. So if someone could help me figure out one of these, then I can copy paste it 10 times in my htaccess for each subdomain and be set.
Drop this into the .htaccess file of the old site (adjusting the domain to your actual one):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/blogs/string/$1 [R=301]
This will grab this part of the URL at the old site:
year/month/dd/string-pulled-from-title
and redirect it to the new site under the new location:
blogs/string/year/month/dd/string-pulled-from-title
Alternatively, if you want something a little more variable like, without having to custom fix each .htaccess, drop this in the file for each subdomain instead:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*).example.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/blogs/%1/$1 [R=301,L]
If you're redirecting to the same domain, and it includes the www, adjust the rewrite rules to the following:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*).example.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/blogs/%1/$1 [R=301,L]
Note the second RewriteCond which checks to make sure that the URL requested does not include the leading www, which may lead to an endless redirect if the destination URL itself includes www and would try and redirect that subdomain as well.
%1 grabs the first capture group from the line above.
$1 references the first capture group on the same line.