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Website conversion redirects
I have successfully converted must of my old website to Textpattern – yay! However, I have one webpage that was somewhat popular to link to, and it has moved. How do I create an Apache redirect? I tried
Redirect 301 /alfa/(.*) http://www.skewray.com/articles/1976-alfa-romeo-spider-veloce-ev-conversionboth before and after all of the RewriteEngine stuff:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
# map skewray.com to www.skewray.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^skewray.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.skewray.com/$1 [L,R=301]
# the rest of this is from Textpattern 4.5.2 - don't know what it does
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^(.+) - [PT,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} !^$
RewriteRule .* - [E=REMOTE_USER:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
</IfModule>but I always get redirected to www.www….
Will it make a difference that “alfa” is also an article catagory?
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Re: Website conversion redirects
If it’s one web page, why not just redirect the specific page instead of an entire directory. That will at least rule out any conflict between the old URL and the new category.
For example:
redirect 301 /alfa/my-old-page.php http://www.skewray.com/articles/1976-alfa-romeo-spider-veloce-ev-conversionOffline
Re: Website conversion redirects
Also, not that I use it or have tested it, but here’s the rewrite rule from H5BP. Might be worth trying that out if still having problems (slightly different rule than what you have):
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\..+$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
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Re: Website conversion redirects
The directory and various files in it have all been linked to out in the wild. I tried redirecting the entire directory and just the index.html file. Both failed. However, it occurred to me that it may be possible to avoid the arcane Apache redirects and do the redirection in Textpattern.
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Re: Website conversion redirects
Figured it out – as philwareham said, use a RewriteRule, not a Redirect. The final ApacheBabel was:
RewriteRule alfa/(.*) /articles/1976-alfa-romeo-spider-veloce-ev-conversion [L,R=301]I used the Monkey-At-Keyboard method to develop this.
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