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#1 2020-12-08 02:35:45

GugUser
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Redirect one download link to another

I am trying to redirect with .htaccess one download link to another, but it doesn’t work.

 Redirect 301	/file_download/1/title.pdf	https://domain.tld/file_download/13/title.pdf

or…

RedirectMatch 301	/file_download/1/title.pdf	/file_download/13/title.pdf

Does anyone have an idea why this isn’t redirected?

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#2 2020-12-09 01:28:21

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Re: Redirect one download link to another

I have it working with RedirectMatch 301. What is happening on your side ?


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#3 2020-12-09 03:34:45

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Re: Redirect one download link to another

It works with article or section URLs, but not with /file_download/.

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#4 2020-12-09 06:43:48

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Re: Redirect one download link to another

That is strange, it works perfectly here. Maybe try omitting the file-name.ext, like this:

  Redirect 301	/file_download/1/title.pdf	https://domain.tld/file_download/13/

Otherwise I have no clue.


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#5 2020-12-09 09:27:09

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Re: Redirect one download link to another

Where do you have it in your .htaccess file? As far as I remember it should be before Textpattern does any other handling of files, e.g. above the REQUEST_FILENAME and after the Rewrite Base, e.g. here.


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#6 2020-12-09 17:22:24

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Re: Redirect one download link to another

I thought “that’s it, jakob always makes good suggestions”. But unfortunately that doesn’t work either.

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#7 2020-12-09 18:30:26

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Re: Redirect one download link to another

Is the direct access to the replacing file working at all?

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#8 2020-12-10 01:52:39

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Re: Redirect one download link to another

Yes, there are two files with working, direct download. But I want file #1 not to be downloaded anymore, but file #11 in its place.

There are people who still have the old link for a file with date without knowing that there is a newer version of the file that has no date in the link, but is always up-to-date.

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#9 2020-12-10 04:57:46

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Re: Redirect one download link to another

It would have been much simpler to replace the file (similar to the way images are replaced), but I remember that this is an issue with txp for some years now. I’m not sure if it was fixed since OK, I eventually did see your post in the forum. .

Last edited by colak (2020-12-10 05:12:04)


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