I am moving a website to a new Open Cart install and I have set up 301 redirects to keep any SEO value.
I had to use the following trick here - http://www.itsadam.co.uk/opencart-301-redirect-not-working-seo-fix-route/ - to work around an annoying issue with the way Open Cart handles url rewrites. So, I have this sort of thing in my .htaccess file currently:
redirect 301 /products-page /products?
However, this now leaves my rewritten urls with a trailing ? - an empty query string effectively:
http://www.mysite.com/products?
Is there a way I can use rewrites to match and ditch any superfluous question marks? (I need to retain any actual query strings).
I encountered the same issue in opencart. Rather than follow the link to your solution do it like this:
RewriteRule ^original-url$ new-url [L,R=301]
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There's a site that has had a bunch of bad links indexed and I've been asked to deal with it. There's one type of link that is giving me a headache:
http://www.example.com/category-display.html&Category_Code=some_cat_code
I tried redirecting to the home page:
Redirect 301 /category-display.html& /
That doesn't work because it adds everything past the & to the url.
In the best of worlds, I'd like to redirect to:
/app/mm.mvc?Category_Code=some_cate_code
So I tried using querystring and RewriteRule/RewriteCond but there's no query string without the ? that I can figure out, so I'm kind of stuck here.
Any ideas?
You can use this rule as your top rule in site root .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^category-display\.html&(.*)$ /app/mm.mvc?$1 [L,NC,NE,R=301]
I only modify the .htaccess with great care for the purposes of my online store.
Some time ago, I did a website migration from osCommerce to OpenCart. This resulted in orphaned osCommerce-style URLs with these two example formats:
http://www.londonpower.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=75
http://www.londonpower.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=15&products_id=75
Lots of websites in internet-land have links to my old-style URLs, and I have about 100 of them, so I would like to redirect them to new URLs with the following format:
http://www.londonpower.com/2-channel-guitar-preamp
If I understand correctly, the problem has two parts:
to eliminate the underscores, as they baffle the .htaccess engine;
to then perform a 301 redirect on the URL.
So far, I have been able to get the first underscore to change to a hyphen, with this Rewrite Rule:
RewriteRule ^([^_]*)_(.*)$ /$1-$2 [R=301,L]
...but no luck with the second underscore (the one that is part of the query string after the "?"). I am stuck there.
I would avoid using rewriting for this. Does the file catalog/product_info.php exist in the new store? If not, create it and add a simple redirection using a map of old IDs to new URLs. If so, do the same thing in a different file, like old-redirector.php then rewrite requests to it.
I'm new to programming and brand new to this site (although it has helped out many times as I'm trying to learn this stuff...so THANKS for all the help so far!).
My question relates to 301 redirects. I've been searching this site as well as many other pages through google and can't seem to find a solution that works for me (I'm guessing that the solution is probably already out there since it seems like a common problem...but I haven't yet been able to find it).
So here it is:
I have a site where: http://homework-heroes.com/php/views/newAssignment.php?[then any query string] always goes to the same page.
For the sake of eliminating duplicate content as seen by google, I want these to always redirect to: http://homework-heroes.com/php/views/newAssignment.php?final
What is the htaccess code I should insert to accomplish this?
Thanks in advance!
Place the following in your /.htaccess file:
RewriteRngine On
RewriteRule %{QUERY_STRING} !^$
RewriteRule %{QUERY_STRING} !^final$
RewriteRule ^(php/views/newAssignment.php)$ /$1?final [R=302,NC,L]
The above basically says that if the query string is not blank and a request is being made to /php/views/newAssignment.php, then redirect to the same page with ?final as the new query string.
Alternatively, if you would like to remove the query string altogether, just remove final,leave the question mark in the rule, and remove the second condition.
If you're happy and want to make the redirect permanent, change 302 to 301.
firstly I know and understand how to redirect based on parameters :)
My issue is that I need to redirect all links based on the supplied MenuID parameter and ignore any other information in the query string, as not all parameters are used in each web page request, e.g. menuid=2738421; is New Products
http://www.domain.com/shop.php?menuid=2738421&menuref=Ja&menutitle=New+Products& limit=5&page=24
or,
http://www.domain.com/shop.php?menuid=2738421&menuref=Ja&menutitle=New+Products&limit=20&page=3
or,
http://www.domain.com/shop.php?menuid=2738421&menuref=Ja&page=12&limit=15
to
http://www.domain.com/new.html?page=x&limit=x
The reason for the redirection is that search-engines have indexed these pages and so I need to prettify the URLs.
Is this actually possible to create a fuzzy redirect criteria?
## 301 Redirects
# 301 Redirect 1 - works for this explicit URL, but need a partial result
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteRule ^new\.html$ http://www.monarchycatering.com/shop.php?menuid=2738421&menuref=Ja&menutitle=New+Products&limit=5&page=24 [R=301,NE,NC,L]
Any help gratefully taken, thank you in advance
Mark.
Sorry for the delay, but StackOverflow doesn't seem to have a way to flag answers that have been replied to and need my attention.
OK, if I understand you correctly, you have an incoming "reduced" semi-SEF URL out in the real world (produced by your links), such as
http://www.domain.com/new.html&limit=5&page=24
("real" SEF would be something like http://www.domain.com/new/limit/5/page/24.html)
and you need to use .htaccess to map it to real files and more Query String information:
http://www.domain.com/shop.php?menuid=2738421&menuref=Ja&menutitle=New+Products&limit=5&page=24
You want to detect new.html for example, and replace it by a fixed string shop.php?menuid=2738421&menuref=Ja&menutitle=New+Products&, using the [QSA] flag to append the existing Query String on to the end?
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^new\.html /shop.php?menuid=2738421&menuref=Ja&menutitle=New+Products [QSA]
RewriteRule ^sale\.html /shop.php?menuid=32424&menuref=Ja&menutitle=Products+On+Sale [QSA]
...etc...
I believe that a & will be stuck on the end of the rewritten address if the user supplied a non-empty Query String, but be sure to test it both ways.
P.S. It probably would have been cleaner to use "comment" to reply to my question, rather than adding another answer.
It's not clear to me what your starting point is and where you're trying to end up. Do you have "pretty" URLs that you want to convert into "non-pretty" Query Strings that your scripts can actually digest?
The reason for the redirection is that search-engines have indexed
these pages and so I need to prettify the URLs.
If the search engines have already indexed the Query String non-pretty version, they'll have to now re-index with pretty URLs. Ditto for all your customers' bookmarks.
If you want to generate "pretty" links within your site, and decode them (in .htaccess) upon re-entry to non-pretty Query Strings, that should work. Your customers' existing bookmarks should even continue to work, while the search engines will replace the non-pretty with the pretty URLs.
and thanks for the interest in my question...
I have rewritten parts of my website and Google still has references to the old MenuID parameter and shop.php configuration, but now I rewriten the Query to a prettier format, e.g.
http://www.domain.com/shop.php?menuid=2738421&menuref=Ja&menutitle=New+Products&limit=5&page=24
is now
http://www.domain.com/new.html&limit=5&page=24
The pages represent product categories, and so needed to be displayed in a more meaningful manner. Customer bookmarking is not an issue, as long as I can redirect the pages.
I hope that makes sense, best wishes,
Mark.
Stupidly, I have sent out a newsletter without checking the links. One of which is broken so I want to handle this with htaccess.
My URL that is being linked to is:
http://www.domain.com.au/www.domain.com.au/campers-and-motorhomes/ne%20w-zealand/camper-rentals/
where the actual page is:
http://www.domain.com.au/campers-and-motorhomes/new-zealand/camper-rentals/
Note the space in new zealand as well as the additional www.domain.com.au
How can I set this up in htaccess?
Thanks
Since you don't have to manipulate the URL, you can use a simple Redirect:
Redirect /www.domain.com.au/campers-and-motorhomes/ne%20w-zealand/camper-rentals/ http://www.domain.com.au/campers-and-motorhomes/new-zealand/camper-rentals/
Edit If Apache doesn't like the space unquoted as %20, try quoting the whole thing with a real space in there:
Redirect "/www.domain.com.au/campers-and-motorhomes/ne w-zealand/camper-rentals/" http://www.domain.com.au/campers-and-motorhomes/new-zealand/camper-rentals/
Edit2 If it's appending a query string, you will need to use mod_rewrite to get rid of the querystring rather than a simple redirect, I'm afraid.
RewriteEngine On
# If the request starts with www.domain.com.au, it is the broken link
# Rewrite to the proper URL and put ? on the end to remove the query string
RewriteRule ^www\.domain\.com\.au http://www.domain.com.au/campers-and-motorhomes/new-zealand/camper-rentals/? [L,R=301]