I'm trying to redirect an old url to a new one using 301
I need an example of RewriteQueryString for the following 301? http://www .example.com/search/?depId=1&typeCatId=1 to the following http://www.example.com/mens/clothing
So when I type in the long URL in the browser, I am redirected to the new, shorter URL
Any ideas?
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^search/\?depId=1&typeCatId=1$ /mens/clothing [R=301]
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You could use mod_rewrite either in your .htaccess file or the apache configuration. You might take a look at the RewriteMap feature if you are going to have a lot of different departments, etc. to map. Using the [R] flag after the RewriteRule will cause the browser to redirect instead of just being an internal redirect. Using [R=301] will make it a 301 redirect.
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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?
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I want redirect all post like this in htaccess:
https://www.example.com/{year}/{month}/{day}/mainurl/addess/
to:
https://www.example.com/mainurl/addess/
That {year}/{month}/{day}/ is variable.
I use wordpress. and {year}/{month}/{day} is Permalink in general menu of wp-admin.
To clarify, you will need to have already changed your permalink structure inside WordPress for the following redirect to work.
In order to redirect https://www.example.com/2013/12/14/url55/amp/ to https://www.example.com/url55/amp/, where the 2013/12/14/ (year/month/day) part is variable then try the following before your existing WordPress directives:
RewriteRule ^\d{4}/\d\d/\d\d/(url55/amp/) /$1 [R=302,L]
Note that this is a temporary (302) redirect. Change it to 301 if this is intended to be permanent, but only after you have confirmed that it is working OK. (301 redirects are cached hard by the browser by default, so can make testing problematic.)
To make the above redirect more generic, ie. to redirect /<year>/<month>/<day>/<something1>/<something2>/ to /<something1>/<something2>/ then make the above regex more generic. For example:
RewriteRule ^\d{4}/\d\d/\d\d/([^/]+/[^/]+/) /$1 [R=302,L]
I'm setting up a project where users can get information about specific pages.
How can I redirect urls in htaccess that look like:
http://www.example.com/http://www.cnn.com/article1.html
to:
http://www.example.com/cnn/article1.html
It is ok if the htaccess specifies cnn and not all dynamic web addresses.
I tried using 301 directory redirects but I think the "http://" part of it is confusing it.
I tried using 301 directory redirects like the following code, but the http:// part is still confusing it:
RewriteRule ^http://youtube.com/(.*)$ /youtube/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule http://www.example.com/http://youtube.com/(.*)$ /youtube/$1 [L,R=301]
This code below works properly to redirect example.com/youtube.com/watch?v=videoid to example.com/youtube/watch?v=videoid:
RewriteRule ^youtube.com/(.*)$ /youtube/$1 [L,R=301]
but if the user types in a link with http:// in it then the server cannot currently redirect properly.
Even better, if you can remove the /http:// and /https:// altogether from http://example.com/http://url.com and http://example.com/https://url.com to redirect to http://example.com/url.com/ then the redirect code that I have working in the youtube example will fix the issue for all of the domains.
How can I do this?
Thank you!
How to convert a 301 redirect dynamic url to a static url?
In this case
www.example.com/book.php?book=title
into
www.example.com/book/title
When Requesting the Dynamic URL it should Convert as a static URL.
The dynamic URL should be converted and the static URL should be displayed in the address bar instead.
I got this code :
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^user/([^-]+)/?$ /user.php?id=$1 [NC,L]
Can some one give me a 301 redirect of dynamic url tio static url.
Thanks in Advance.
The easiest way is using Apache's mod_rewrite in your .htaccess file. To get the 'static' (seo/fancy) url in the address bar, you'll need an external redirect. To get the server to do something sensible with it, you'll need an internal rewrite. To prevent an infinite loop, you'll need to use the %{THE_REQUEST} trick.
%External redirect
RewiteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(GET|HEAD)\ /book\.php\?book=(.*)\ HTTP
RewriteRule ^ /book/%1? [R,L]
%Internal rewrite
RewriteRule ^book/(.*)$ /book.php?book=$1 [L]
The above rules are untested (but they should work). If they work, change [R,L] to [R=301,L]. This will make the redirect permanent. This will cache the redirect in the browser and lessen the amounts of requests to your server and make search engines 'remember' the right url. You don't want to do this while testing though, because it might show a previous attempt (that is cached) instead of sending the request actually to the server.
I'am trying to update .htaccess to redirect me from : page.php/name to page.php?id=name. Can anyone help with example? I find a lot of example but not for this case.
To redirect (telling the browser that the request for page.php/name is at page.php?id=name, thus changing the URL in the location bar) you can do one of two things.
Using mod_alias:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/page\.php/(.*)$ /page.php?id=$1
Or using mod_rewrite:
RewriteRule ^/?page\.php/(.*)$ /page.php?id=$1 [QSA,L,R=301]
If you don't want a permanent redirect (301), then remove the 301 and =301 parts from the above.