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#1 2021-02-08 19:11:19

lazlo

Member

Registered: 2004-02-24

Posts: 110

Redirect a non-existant "section" URL to an article URL

I tried to rediect a non-existant section URL to and article

talonbooks.com/OAHOY to https://talonbooks.com/audio/OAHOY

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^talonbooks\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.talonbooks\.com$
RewriteRule ^OAHOY$ "https\:\/\/talonbooks\.com\/audio\/OAHOY" [R=302,L]

404 came up and I couldn’t figure it out, after many versions I failed.

I could only create a kludge by creating a section called OAHOY then writing code to display an article

https://talonbooks.com/OAHOY/OAHOY

Is there no easier way to create redirects (rewrites) for top level URLs like https://talonbooks.com/OAHOY without creating a section named OAHOY?

Thanks
Les

#2 2021-02-08 19:37:49

jakob

Admin

From: Germany

Registered: 2005-01-20

Posts: 4,595

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Re: Redirect a non-existant "section" URL to an article URL

That should work. Maybe you just need to simplify your rewrite? You might be able to get away with:

Redirect 302 /OAHOY        https://talonbooks.com/audio/OAHOY

or

RewriteRule ^OAHOY/?$    /audio/OAHOY [L,R=302]

Alternatively, you could not use .htaccess and try either arc_redirect (straight URL redirects) or smd_redirect (with regex and ordering of rules).

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