upgrading static site to txp site, seo question

Rambling · 2008-01-03 03:02:39

I’m also currently in the process of moving from a static site to a TxP site. Fortunately, by using the names of the folders on the old site as section names and URL-Only Titles for the articles, I’ve been able to get the URLs to nearly match, except for the .html extension. I want to redirect requests to the old html urls to their extensionless TxP counterparts, so I tried adding

RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ $1 [R]

to my .htaccess file. When I visited the old URLS, I get served http://localhost/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/index.php/First_Post (the location of my testing server on my Mac) rather than the proper page. I’m thinking that there has to be some other RewriteRule rule that’s causing a conflict, since I tested the regular expression in my rule with a regex tester and it worked fine. What’s going on?

maniqui · 2008-01-03 14:29:55

I’m far from being an redirect/regex expert but yu could try adding a backslash in front of the second dot, to escape it.
Like this:

RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1 [R]

Rambling · 2008-01-03 20:48:23

maniqui wrote:

I’m far from being an redirect/regex expert but yu could try adding a backslash in front of the second dot, to escape it.
Like this:

RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1 [R]

I tried this and it still produces the same result.

kvnmcwebn · 2008-01-12 00:56:49

ive put the redirects in the .htaccess file its working pretty good for me but 100%. For instance it doesnt seem to work in safari at all.

Last edited by kvnmcwebn (2008-01-12 00:57:08)

Gocom · 2008-01-12 01:01:26

For instance it doesnt seem to work in safari at all.

What does your .httaccess contain? Could help to solve this ;)

And one another thing: have you clear your browser’s cache?

Cheers!

Last edited by Gocom (2008-01-12 01:02:31)

jm · 2008-01-12 01:04:10

Could you post the URLs and your redirects?

kvnmcwebn · 2008-01-12 16:29:16

doh! i hadnt cleared the cache it in safari…. sorry

heres my htaccess file anyway.

#DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

Redirect 301 /pensioins.htm http://www.url.ie/pensions
Redirect 301 /protection.htm http://www.url.ie/protections
Redirect 301 /corporate.htm http://www.url.ie/business/
Redirect 301 /inheritance.htm http://www.url.ie/inheritance-tax/
Redirect 301 /contactus.htm http://www.url.ie/business/
Redirect 301 /aboutus.htm http://www.url.ie/About-Us/
Redirect 301 /mortgages.htm http://www.url.ie/Mortgages/11/the-mortgage-centre
Redirect 301 /staff.htm http://www.url.ie/Meet-The-Team/

#Options +FollowSymLinks
#Options -Indexes

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On #RewriteBase /relative/web/path/

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteRule ^(.+) – [PT,L]

RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php
</IfModule>

#php_value register_globals 0

Last edited by kvnmcwebn (2008-01-12 16:30:50)

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Re: upgrading static site to txp site, seo question

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