htaccess redirect doesn't work with default .htaccess

admsh · **Posted:** Sun May 08, 2011 3:31 pm

I'm trying to redirect old html pages to their new locations on the newly-built cmsms website using .htaccess 301 redirect.

I think the code is conflicting with the default syntax from the .htaccess file that was in the docs directory (brand new install of 1.9.4.1)

I'm trying to use this code:

Code:

Redirect 301 /page.htm http://my.site.com/page

But what happens is that when I try to go to http://my.site.com/page.htm, the browser is automatically redirected to http://my.site.com/page?page=page.htm

How can I change the .htaccess code so that these 301 redirects are not affected by the other rewrites?

10010110 · **Joined:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:57 am **Posts:** 31

Yeah, I have the same problem. It would be really great if anybody could shed some light on this. It’s really important because otherwise the new sites have to rebuild their search engine ranking from scratch since basically the whole site has gone and there’s a new one now that has to be reindexed completely.

Rolf · **Posted:** Wed Aug 10, 2011 7:40 pm

Try something like:

Code:

RewriteRule page-alias.html$ http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/path/to/page-alias [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^page-alias$ http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/path/to/page-alias [R=301,L]

Hope this helps,

Rolf

10010110 · **Joined:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:57 am **Posts:** 31

Yes! I’ve tried the first of your suggestions and it’s working great, thank you!

replytomk3 · **Posted:** Sat Aug 13, 2011 5:35 pm

http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=55614

htaccess redirect doesn't work with default .htaccess

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