I've run into a problem updating my site, the google search results show up links to the old page which are 404's now, some of them even containing deprecated content.
My question is about the use of 301's. The old page had deeply nested pages like the example below:
www.site.com/category/subjects/subject_b.html
It shows up in google with a very specific description of 'subject_b', which is not optimal for my purposes.
The new layout I've been working on means that content that was once under '/category/subjects/subject_b' is now found in a single page (www.site.com/subjects.html), along with the hypothetical subject_a & subject_c.
Would I be wrong redirecting the old pages like this?
redirect http://www.site.com/category/subjects/subject_a.html http://www.site.com/subjects.html
redirect http://www.site.com/category/subjects/subject_b.html http://www.site.com/subjects.html
redirect http://www.site.com/category/subjects/subject_c.html http://www.site.com/subjects.html
Also, how would I deal with pages that have google descriptions with content which is not on the new equavilient page?
I'd be happy if anyone could shed some light on this for me, or point me in a right direction as to where I can read more about it!
Would I be wrong redirecting the old pages like this?
You'd remove the http://www.site.com part. This should suffice:
Redirect 301 /category/subjects/subject_a.html /subjects.html
Redirect 301 /category/subjects/subject_b.html /subjects.html
Redirect 301 /category/subjects/subject_c.html /subjects.html
Or even:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/category/subjects/subject(.*) /subjects.html
to cover for all 3.
If you have multiple domains all pointing to the same document root and you actually need to match the path for a specific domain, you can use mod_rewrite:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?site.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?category/subjects/subject(.*) /subjects.html [L,R=301]
Related
I want to implement 3 redirect rules for a blog migration where each page will be shifted to a sub-folder structure. It currently sits at a sub-domain.
I can't really screw this one up and want to make sure I nail the correct generic rules for the 3 type of existing URLs:
Homepage
Current:
https://blog.lang.example.com
Goal:
https://www.example.com/lang-country/news/
Category
Current:
https://blog.lang.example.com/category/category-name
Goal:
https://www.example.com/lang-country/news/category/category-name
Post
Current:
https://blog.lang.example.com/yyy/mm/dd/article-name
Goal:
https://www.example.com/lang-country/news/yyy/mm/dd/article-name
Is this something you can help?
Unless you have other URLs that you don't want to be redirected then you can do something like what you require with a single redirect near the top of the .htaccess file in the subdomain's document root.
For example:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^blog\.([^.]+)\.example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) https://www.example.com/%1-country/news/$1 [R,L]
Where %1 is a backreference to the lang subdomain in the requested host.
However, you still have the problem of where country should come from in the target URL, since this is not present in the source URL. You will either need to default this to something or implement some kind of lookup based on the language. This would need server config access (to configure a RewriteMap) if you wanted to do this in .htaccess. Or, you implement this redirect entirely in your server-side script (eg. PHP).
Note that this is currently a 302 (temporary) redirect. Only change this to a 301 (permanent) redirect once you have tested that everything is working OK (if a 301 is required). 301 redirects are cached hard by the browser so can make testing problematic.
I am woundering if there is a way to redirect all pages with specific parent page in URL
Basically I have a following duplicates of pages :
www.website/product-category-2/x-category
as well as
www.website/product-category/x-category
Is there a way to create a redirect that will push all the pages from product-category-2 to product-category?
So the redirect will look like this:
www.website/product-category-2/* -> www.website/product-category/*
Thank you for your help in advance
This should work
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^product-category-2/(.*) /product-category/$1 [R=301,L]
It will redirect www.website/product-category-2/* to www.website/product-category/*
We are having a problem with URL rewrites on an apache server using .htaccess.
Goal: to have the following URL stripped of its category & subcategory while leaving the generic redirect in place.
Test 1:
Redirect 301 /category/subcategory/product http://www.site.com/product
Redirect works perfectly. A single redirect to the desired page.
Test 2:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/category/subcategory/.*$ 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.
Before using word press for our new website we were using following urls...
http://www.domain.com/web-services
http://www.domain.com/seo-services (about 100 urls)
Now new url would be
http://www.domain.com/np/web-services
So we would like to 301 redirect all old pages to new pages, we could simple use following htaccess code...
Redirect 301 /web-services http://www.domain.com/np/web-services
But that would make htaccess file too large, so is there any way to redirect all pages to new pages.
thanks.
Enable mod_rewrite on your apache server, then put this inside your .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/web-services/(.*)$ /np/web-services/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^/seo-services/(.*)$ /np/web-services/$1 [R=301,L]
Any url starting with /web-services or /seo-services will be redirected to /np/web-services.
Or alternatively, you can use mod_alias' RedirectMatch:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/([^\-]+)-([^/]+)/?(.*)?$ /np/$1-$2/$3
So any request that starts with /web-services/ will get redirected with a /np appended to the front:
http://www.example.com/web-services/test1 -> http://www.example.com/np/web-services/test1
http://www.example.com/web-services/test/test2 -> http://www.example.com/np/web-services/test/test2
And the same with seo-services or anything with XXX-XXX.
EDIT:
if i try RedirectMatch 301 ^/([^\-]+)-([^/]+)-([^/]+) /np/$1-$2-$3/ its thorwing redirection error
Try:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/([^/\-]+)-([^/\-]+)-([^/]+) /np/$1-$2-$3/
Because /np/ is being matched against ^/([^\-]+)
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i have a litte problem :(
on my site i created with mod_rewrite some rules...
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][^/]+)$ /index.php?lang=$1&i=$2&cat=$3&item=$4 [L]
with that rule i recieve the following link
/en/article/category/item/021205
with this code above is everything ok..
now my problem is that i changed my site for SEO.
the link looks now like this
/en/article/category/item/021205-seo-link-is-here
my problem are the pages in google and co..
is there a way to create rule that i can redirect:
/en/article/category/item/021205 >> to >> /en/article/category/item/021205-seo-link-is-here
my site is multilangual /en /es /fr if it is important for the rule
best regards bernte
If your want to do the redirect for each page on your own, then the order of your RewriteRules is important.
Better solution would be to ignore the seo-link in your index.php unless the articleId is unique