I'm moving servers and cleaning up the url's a bit at the same time.
current urls are:
secure.mydomain.com/onlinestore/product.php?productid=12345
changing it to:
mydomain.com/product.php?productid=12345
wondering if I can do something in htaccess so if someone clicks an old link/bookmark they get redirected to the new page.
Not worried about making the dynamic part be SEO friendly just yet.
Try this. It forces a redirect with a "moved permanently" header.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} secure\.mydomain\.com
RewriteRule onlinestore/product\.php http://mydomain.com/product.php [L,R=301,QSA]
Edit was missing some / in the RewriteCond
Edit2 Redirect wasn't going to the correct domain
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I am changing my website from a dynamic CMS-system (Umbraco) to a static classic .HTML. It is the on the same domain, but the URL will change.
Example: The URL is changing from:
www.example.com/information
To:
www.example.com/info.html
My question is:
What is the best way to redirect while keeping the best SEO page rank.
I am thinking about 301 redirect through .htaccess, but I am not sure if I should redirect my new to .html urls to the old dynamic …/example - or the other way?
Or maybe there is a different better way?
I do have a fine 404.
Also I need the right redirect code for .htaccess - if that's the right way.
I hope you guys can help me out.
I haven't try anything out yet, because I don't wanna do 301 before the site go live.
You need to implement 301 redirects from the old URL to the new URL in order to preserve SEO and ensure that any "old" links that have been bookmarked or linked to from other websites still work.
Exactly how you implement the 301 redirect (either in your server-side script or in .htaccess) does not really matter. However, if you are moving to an entirely static site then .htaccess is likely the only option you have.
I am not sure if I should redirect my new to .html urls to the old dynamic …/example - or the other way?
You need to redirect from the "old" URLs to the "new" URLs that you are using/linking to on the new site. (It makes no sense to redirect the other way as that would just break everything!)
You can probably just use the simple mod_alias Redirect directive.
For example, to 301 redirect from /information to /info.html you could do the following:
Redirect 301 /information /info.html
Bear in mind that 301 redirects are cached persistently by the browser. To prevent caching issues it is advisable to test first with a 302 (temporary) redirect.
Have you considered keeping the same URLs? This would obviously negate the need for implementing redirects. You could employ URL-rewriting if the underlying file is called info.html. For example, using mod_rewrite:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^information$ info.html [L]
The above would internally rewrite a request for /information to info.html. The user only sees /information in the browser address bar, but info.html is served from your site.
Taking this further, it would be easier if the new "file" is simply the same as the old URL, just with a .html extension. For example, the URL is /information and the underlying file is information.html. You can then use a single rule to rewrite all your URLs. For example:
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1.html -f
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)$ $1.html [L]
The above assumes the old URLs do not contain additional slashes (ie. consist of a single path segment. In other words, all files are in the document root) and do not contain dots.
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I finally got my page ready to go live, and i changed all my new URLS to the same name as the old URL, just with a .html extension - as u said. After that i used:
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1.html -f
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)$ $1.html [L]
And it works fine.
I do have a question about if a "RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ /$1 [L,R=301]" would be better? I mean both "/page.html" and "/page/" works, and this could mess with my former SEO ranking?
Also: what do u think of this:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /([^.]+)\.html [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1 [NC,L,R]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f
RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI}.html [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ /$1 [L,R=301]
And by the way. Do you use "page.html" or just "/page" in your href to prevent the .html showing?
//MM
I am trying to use htaccess to redirect ALL pages from a domain to a specific page on a new domain. Yes, I completely understand we will loose SEO value this way.
I currently have a cpanel redirect that makes this url:
https://www.kiss1047.net/
go to this
https://mytown-media.com/stations/kiss-104-7-kxnc-fm/
but that doesn't get any of the internal pages to redirect. I would also like all internal pages (here is an example):
https://www.kiss1047.net/listen-live
to also go to:
https://mytown-media.com/stations/kiss-104-7-kxnc-fm/
I have tried a few things, but they always carry over the page url, ie above /listen-live/
https://mytown-media.com/stations/kiss-104-7-kxnc-fm/listen-live/
and that results in a 404.
is there some htaccess magic i can employ here?
In your .htaccess file .. Make a single entry that looks like:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) https://mytown-media.com/stations/kiss-104-7-kxnc-fm/ [R=301,L]
This will direct ALL TRAFFIC (.*) to your other website .. Regardless of file name or directory .. And will not append the file/directory to the end of the URL .. IE listen-live
This is a 301 Permanent redirect [R=301,L] .. Which means once followed by Google, will be indexed as such .. Also will cache in users browsers so that the browser remembers the 301 instead of bouncing between websites as well.
This command in .htaccess redirects every page of your old domain to new domain's one specific URL.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/ [R=301,L]
For your case:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://mytown-media.com/stations/kiss-104-7-kxnc-fm/ [R=301,L]
In result:
https://www.kiss1047.net/listen-live
will be redirected to:
https://mytown-media.com/stations/kiss-104-7-kxnc-fm/
My website was on an old AMP plugin which added /amp/ after every post/page url.
So my home for example is: https://jeretiens.net and the amp one was https://jeretiens.net/amp/
I wanted to know what rule can I put on the .htaccess to make a redirect of all these /amp/ to the "normal" page itself.
So for example: https://example./my-article-1/amp/ redirects to https://example./my-article-1/, https://example.com/my-article-2/ redirects to https://example./my-article-2/ and it does for every article/page.
I'm sure it's possible to do it without typing 1000 lines of 301 "easy" redirects in the .htaccess !
Okay fellas,
I found the solution, this is the Redirect Rule you need to put to say goodbye to /amp/:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/amp(.*)$
RewriteRule ^ %1/ [R=301,L]
I hope it will be helpful
I have recently change some URLs from my website to make it more SEO friendly. I have old urls that I would like to link to new urls. The old urls are no longer available but I would like the old urls to redirect to the new urls.
My current 301 redirect code below is for http:// to https://www, which I need.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mywebsite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.mywebsite.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC]
How do I make it so that I can also redirect from old urls to new urls as well. Is it possible with the 301 redirect?
Old url examples:
www.mywebsite.com/book-stories.html
www.mywebsite.com/book-journals.html
New url examples:
www.mywebsite.com/stories.html
www.mywebsite.com/journals.html
Any help would be much appreciated.
If you only have a handful, static redirections you can do it appending RewriteRules just as you are doing:
RewriteRule ^book-stories.html$ stories.html [R=301]
RewriteRule ^book-journals.html$ journals.html [R=301]
If they all have a fixed pattern, you could exploit that to reduce the amount of rules.
RewriteRule ^book-([a-z0-9.-]+).html$ $1.html [R=301]
If you have many different rules that you will be updating, you can look into indexed maps or even database-based RewriteMaps
I tried the above code and didn't work and to be honest I could have been doing it incorrectly. I did look into it further and tried another 301 redirect
Redirect 301 book-stories.html https://www.mywebsite.com/stories.html
Redirect 301 book-journals.html https://www.mywebsite.com/journals.html
That worked for me. Hope this helps anyone else who will encounter this issue.
I'm new at programming. We have an office project, the website's URL is www.project.com.ph (sample name), this is already a live website from the client. But the released printouts have the instructions for the users to go to www.project.com/ph which is wrong and we can't reprint the material since it already reached plenty of event places.
Now the problem is, we need to redirect to www.project.com.ph automatically if the users type in the browser's address bar www.project.com/ph. I ask if this is possible without any kind of CMS or Wordpress and how to actually do it? We bought a new domain www.project.com for this. Any kind of help is appreciated.
Try the following near the top of your .htaccess file in the root of www.project.com. This works OK (although marginally less efficient) if both domains are pointing to the same place, since it specifically checks that we are requesting the "wrong" domain:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?project\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ph/?(.*) http://www.project.com.ph/$1 [NC,R=302,L]
This will redirect requests for www.project.com/ph (no slash), www.project.com/ph/ (with a trailing slash) and www.project.com/ph/<whatever> to http://www.project.com.ph/<whatever>.
This is a temporary (302) redirect. Change it to a permanent (301) only when you are sure it's working OK.
From kj.'s answer on a similar question, here
In your .htaccess for www.project.com, this should do the trick.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.project.com.ph/ [R=permanent,NC,L]
This will redirect any request to project.com to the domain http://www.project.com.ph/
To include the path after the /ph/` you can use this.
RewriteEngine on
# redirect including path after ph/ (e.g. project.com/ph/directory/file.php to project.com.ph/directory/file.php
RewriteRule ^ph/(.*)$ http://www.project.com.ph/$1 [R=permanent,NC,L]
# redirect any other requests to project.com.ph index
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.project.com.ph/ [R=permanent,NC,L]
You can redirect (301 redirect) the URL using RewritrRule in .htaccess file
RewriteRule "http://www.project.com/ph/(.*)" "http://www.project.com.ph/$1" [L,NC,R=301]