I want to move the website to the Drupal CMS with original paths. It's look like
website.com/search.php?q=blablabla
website.com/index.php?q=blablabla
website.com/category.php?q=auto&page=2
etc
How can i use these aliases in Drupal? Thank you.
I think you will have great difficulty setting this up, if it's even possible. It would be much better to let Drupal use its standard clean URLs and to setup URL rewrite rules to translate requests for legacy URLs to the new ones.
For example, Drupal's search URL looks like:
website.com/search/node/blahblah
And in .htaccess you could define:
RewriteRule ^search.php\?q=(.*)$ /search/node/$1 [R=301,NC,L]
Which would match the format of your legacy search URL, extract the query and rewrite the URL so that query is in Drupal's clean form. That way requests to website.com/search.php?q=blah get translated to website.com/search/node/blah before getting sent to Drupal. The user however will see the new, Drupal-style URL.
mod_rewrite is well documented.
This is of course going to be harder to do if your legacy URLs make use of unique IDs that do not exist in Drupal. In that case I'd take care to make sure that node IDs and taxonomy IDs etc all correspond between your legacy site and your new site. That way you could translate something like /view.php?articleID=121 to /node/121.
This has the effect of handling any incoming links from search engines, third party sites, or users' bookmarks, but leaves you with an entirely new URL structure. I've used this approach before when migrating to Drupal.
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I am trying to clean up a previously hacked WordPress site, and domain name reputation, the site has new hosting and is now on a different CMS system, but there are hundreds of spam links in Google I need to get rid of, they look like example.com/votes.php?10054nzwzm75042pw205039
Domain name, then votes.php?**** etc.. Numbers letters all sorts.
So how do I redirect ANYTHING that starts with the domain name then /votes.php?***
Any help greatly appreciated
Unless you have multiple domains, you don't need to explicitly check the domain name.
To send a "410 Gone" for anything that contains /votes.php in the URL-path (and any query string), you can do something like the following at the top of your root .htaccess file using mod_rewrite:
RewriteEngine On
# Serve a 410 Gone for any requests to "/votes.php"
RewriteRule ^votes\.php$ - [G]
A 410 is preferable to a "redirect" if you want to get these URLs removed from the search engines as quickly as possible.
To expedite the process of URL removal from Google then use Google's Removal Tool as well.
If you redirect these pages to the homepage then it will likely be seen as a soft-404 by Google and these URLs are likely to remain in the search results for a lot longer.
I want to make this URL
https://www.maxelplus.com/single-commercial.php?PId=Mjc&Title=Domestic%20Products
to
https://www.maxelplus.com/domestic-products/table-top-wet-grinders/sleek-table-top-wet-grinder-2l-LEP883/
I used below code but is not working.
RewriteRule ^domestic-products/table-top-wet-grinders/sleek-table-top-wet-grinder-2l-LEP883/$ single-commercial.php?PId=$1&title=$2 [QSA]
Please share whate i am missing..
Depending on how your website is being hosted, it might be helpful to look at the .htaccess permalink structure which can be found here.
It looks like your first link is using a custom structure permalink, but your desired URL is a combination between post name and product number. A generic set of instructions can be found here if you are using WordPress. This can also clarify the benefits of using URLs that are friendly for Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
I have a website that write URLs like this:
mypage.com/post/3453/post-title-name-person
In fact, what is important is the post and ID part (3453). The title I just add for SEO.
I changed some title names recently, but people can still using the old URL to access, because I just get the ID to open the page, so:
mypage.com/post/3453/post-title-name-person
mypage.com/post/3453/name-person
...
Will open the same page.
Is it wrong? Google webmaster tools tells me that I have 8765 duplications pages. So, to try to solve this I am redirecting old title to post/id/current-title but it seems that Google doesn't understand this redirecting and still give me duplications.
Should i redirect to not found if title doesn't match with the actual data base? (But this can be a problem because links that people shared won't open) Or what?
Maybe Google has not processed your redirections yet. It may take several weeks and sometimes several months to process all pages, especially if they are not revisited often. Make sure your redirects are 301 and not 302 (temporary).
That being said, there is a better method than redirections for duplicate pages: the canonical tag. If you can, implement it. There is less risk to mix up redirections.
Google can pick your new URL's only after the implementation of 301 redirection through .htaccess file. You should always need to remember that 301 re-direct should be proper and one to one to the new url. After this implementation you need to fetch those new URL via Google Search console so that Google index those URL's fast.
i've just finished a website with a database for golf-holidays. Now the clue is, i am using joomla internal url-rewrite to generate short urls which is generally great, i like it. The only thing left for SEO optimization would be, if i could point an individual URL to each offer listed in the database. A url to a specific offer looks like this :
http://www.mydomain.com/golfurlaub-mit-greenfee/angebote/urlaubsangebot.html?oid=128
"urlaubsangebot.html" would be the detail site, passed with the parameter "oid" for offerID and then the ID of the offer in my database.
Would it be possible to create a rule / use a tool where i would be agle to assign a custom URL to every offer? For example :
NewURL
http://www.mydomain.com/offers/spain/my-offer-name.html
OldURL
http://www.mydomain.com/golfurlaub-mit-greenfee/angebote/urlaubsangebot.html?oid=128
I tried using tools such as SEF404 and JoomSEF but they rather break my whole structure than help me apply these urls. Any ideas?
Joomla 1.6+ is shipped with Redirect Manager (Components > Redirect). It's designed exactly for this purpose (redirecting old urls to new ones).
Joomla 1.6 will include a new component and plugin called Redirect.
Its main function is to provide a mechanism to record 404 "not found"
errors, and to give the Web site owner the ability to redirect those
to another page if desired.
If there are links to your site that result in error 404, these should be already populated in the list when you open the manager - you just have to add new urls to which to redirect to.
References:
A preview of link redirection in Joomla 1.6
You can use the .htaccess rewrite rules for that:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(offers/spain/my-offer-name.html)$ index.php?option=com_mycomponent&oid=128 [L]
I'd like to know how websites have created URLs with other domains like these on trafficestimate.com.
I'm guessing it's some .htaccess stuff to redirect domain names to a dynamic page?
Thanks
Your URL has an GET Request. So when someone calls the page http://google.com/search with the parameters hl=en, safe=off etc., the page can process those parameters. So for instance safe=off means that you want to get back any search result. The q=site:... is your search string. In this case Google will look it up in its database and give you the results. So when you call this URL there is probably no .htaccess processing done. However you can process the URL and GET request with .htacces and i.e. redirect the user to another page.
Maybe you'll describe a bit further what exactly you trying to do/want to know. This makes explaining easier.
EDIT: After reading Gumbo's comment I looked at the Google result page. So maybe your question means the trafficestimate-URLs. They look like http://trafficestimate.com/example.org. This is really a good case for .htaccess. So using .htaccess they take the URL and redirect it to http://www.trafficestimate.com/websites/?domain=example.org. Here you have again a GET request and an application builds the page.
Some URL rewriting is probably involved. Otherwise they would have to create an existing file for every possible request.
Using Apache’s mod_rewrite in a .htaccess file is one option. But since the server identifies itself with “Microsoft-IIS/7.5”, they are probably rather using ISAPI_Rewrite, a mod_rewrite derivative for Microsoft’s IIS.