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#1 2011-01-21 05:39:15

zeusdidit

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How do I change .htaccess file so section/title goes to just /title?

I’ve been crawled by google and some articles still point to section/title instead of just /title. I’d like to use the .htaccess file to fix this if possible in case other pages are getting lost.

Help

thanks,
Zeus

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#2 2011-01-21 06:25:34

colak

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Re: How do I change .htaccess file so section/title goes to just /title?

Do you have /title as a permlink mode in the admin>preferences?

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#3 2011-01-21 07:21:32

CeBe

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Re: How do I change .htaccess file so section/title goes to just /title?

zeusdidit a écrit:

I’ve been crawled by google and some articles still point to section/title instead of just /title. I’d like to use the .htaccess file to fix this if possible in case other pages are getting lost.

This usually happens when you’ve been crawled when admin>preferences was set to /section/title, then changed to /title.
Here is the .htaccess directive to redirect old urls to new ones, assuming that url titles contain only lowercases and hyphens :

RewriteRule ^name-of-the-section\/([a-z-]+)$ /$1 [R=301,L]

Change name-of-the-section with the actual name. Of course you will have to write this line for each section.