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#1 2008-07-16 13:35:03

oliverker

Plugin Author

From: Huddersfield

Registered: 2008-07-14

Posts: 90

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301 re-directs

Hi

I am converting a current html site into textpattern, they have existing html pages that have good positions in google and would like to use 301 re-directs to move the site links over. The existing pages must be directed to the same page with new url

eg

www.sitename.com/page1.html redirected to www.sitename/section/page1

and so on. The list might be really long but is nessesary, can this be added to the normal .htaccess from textpattern?

(I must use clean URLs for new site)

Please Help.

Thanks
Oliver

#2 2008-07-16 16:48:17

els

Moderator

From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2004-06-06

Posts: 7,458

Re: 301 re-directs

Just add lines like this to .htaccess (I’ve put them just above #php_value register_globals 0):

Redirect permanent /page1.html http://www.site.com/section/page1

If it’s all going to the same section, and this part: page1 is the same in the old and new URL, you’d better use RedirectMatch and regular expressions and probably do it with one line instead of many…

Last edited by els (2008-07-16 16:55:17)