Hopefully a simple question although one I have found impossible to answer myself using the Googles!
I have a website on IIS with the URL http://www.contoso.com/ which points to C:\www\public\
There has been a forced directory restructure so now all of the data (Default.aspx, Product.aspx, etc.) that originally resided in C:\www\public\ now resides in C:\www\public\en\ie\ - however, the IIS website document root is still C:\www\public\
So, essentially, I have a lot of inbound links to http://www.contoso.com/Product.aspx?id=1 (etc.) which are now returning 404 errors - the correct link is now http://www.contoso.com/en/ie/Product.aspx?id=1
Please consider that I can make no changes to the directory structure or the IIS document root... so I must solve this issue using URL rewriting.
Is it possible to capture all requests to contoso.com/* and rewrite them to contoso.com/en/ie/* ??
As Ivo suggests, using url rewriting you can set up inbound rules that match the old url pattern and redirect to the new pattern
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/460/using-url-rewrite-module/
Change the root directory of your website from C:\www\public\ to C:\www\public\en\ie\ and everything should be fine.
If you cannot do this for any reason, make a custom 404 page and rewrite to url in there and redirect with a 301
See: http://searchengineland.com/url-rewriting-custom-error-pages-in-aspnet-20-12234
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After I have upgraded my site I see that once I go live with new version some parts of the website URLs will not be redirected for gallery, blogs and files because of new structure. And there is no way fixing it within the CMS. So my goal is to use NGINX redirects.
I wonder do any of you know any NGINX rewrite tricks to make such redirects possible?
website.com/forums/blogs/ into website.com/blogs/
website.com/forums/gallery/ into website.com/gallery/
website.com/forums/files/ into website.com/files/
I actually need the part forums dropped from the URL only and ONLY when the address is going for forums+blogs/gallery/files. Don't want to loose that google traffic.
So for example
website.com/forums/blogs/entry123/my-dog/ is redirected to
website.com/blogs/entry123/my-dog/
BUT
website.com/forums/topic/my-dog/
is left alone and working just like before because the following subfolder is neither blogs or gallery or files.
I needed that once on Apache and this one worked but on Nginx I have no idea.
RewriteRule ^forums/(blogs|gallery|files)/(.*)$ /$1/$2 [L,R=301]
You can try something like
rewrite ^/forums/(blogs|gallery|files)/(.*)$ /$1/$2;
Please note that rewrite directive accepts some flags wich meaning depends on where is it placed (is it inside a server or location block). Detailed documentation is here.
I'm trying to load content hosted on a subdomain site as a subfolder on the same main domain - I've attempted a variety of IIS URL rewrites with no luck so far. The goal is for a user to go to:
domain.com/subdomain1
which displays
subdomain1.domain.com
but keeps the URL as
domain.com/subdomain1
There are multiple subdomains which I need to do this with.
I have the URL Rewrite module installed and have tried all many of rules.
Any help would be appreciated :-)
A rewrite changes the path on the server only, if you want the URL to change you need a redirect. You can change this on the rule.
I have just been asked to migrate a site from one server to another for a site that I did not build. They have a lot of links to pages that dont exist.
<a href="app/batteries">
This is not actually a directory in the site, but there is an app.php file in the root directory. I have gotten it to display the products by redirecting anything to the app/ directory to app.php?app=. The value of ?app= is dynamic, so any solution would need to be dynamic. I have simply used the redirect statement in the htaccess file to get it to the app.php page. Is there a way to get the url back to the pretty url after a redirect?
Any help would be awesome. Thanks in advance.
You should use ModRewrite instead, for matching a pretty url with regexps, and converting into the url using the app.php.
The rewrite is local to the server, so the visitor sees only pretty urls.
Ok sorry if this has been asked before but I could not find a working solution. I am using wordpress multisite. This is what I am trying to achieve.
Currently the domain http://mynew.com/ redirects (via my hosting co.) to one of the sites on my wordpress multisite installation as follows http://myold.com/subsite/
But I want to hide/swap the urls as follows, http://myold.com/subsite becomes http://mynew.com and all links that follow (eg. http://myold.com/subsite/another-link becomes http://mynew.com/another-link) without breaking.
I tried this in my .htaccess file which rewrote the url successfully however the links did not work and returned 404 errors.
RewriteRule ^subsite/(.+) http://mynew.com/$1 [R,L]
Hope that makes sense, thanks for your help.
Of course it will get you a 404 error, you redirected the request from the old site to the new site, but the new site does not contain the requested pages, so it through you a 404, what you need to do is to redirect from the new site back to the old site INTERNALY (that means without changing the browser address bar), but this requires your new site to work as a proxy server, see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html
After upgrading our website, many old links that people have in blogs, etc. are now going to our 404 error page.
An example is: (using h#p b/c I'm a new user and can't post links)
h#p://www.site.com/pressreleases/some_release.html
h#p://www.site.com/pressreleases/another_release.html
These items are now part of a db-driven site and would be live here:
h#p://www.site.com/pressreleases/details.php?id=1
h#p://www.site.com/pressreleases/details.php?id=2
How can I set up the 301 to redirect
h#p://www.site.com/pressreleases/some_release.html
to
h#p://www.site.com/pressreleases/details.php?id=1,
and
h#p://www.site.com/pressreleases/another_release.html
to
h#p://www.site.com/pressreleases/details.php?id=2?
Thanks
Compose a .htaccess file in the pressreleases directory and specify the following:
Redirect 301 some_release.html details.php?id=1
If you would like to redirect using regular expressions, use mod_rewrite as explained here.
There are various options listed on this page.
If you have a lot of these URLs, and assuming you have access to the Apache config, consider creating a "redirects.inc" file in /etc/apache2 (or anywhere really) and then adding "include /etc/apache2/redirects.inc" to your virtual host. That way you have one place to add/update your redirects.