redirecting URLS in CMS

[soulja90]

Hi,

I just moved my .html original site to the CMS Made Simple CMS.

VERY HAPPY WITH CMSMS

I would like to know how I can redirect my individual pages (.html)

to the new pages on CMSMS that I created.

The issue I'm having is with the current .htaccess file.

I would like to use a 301 redirect.

Thanks

JB

[mahjong]

http://www.webweaver.nu/html-tips/web-redirection.shtml

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Redirect 301 /oldpage.html http://www.example.com/newpage.html

[Nullig]

You can redirect by placing this code in your .htaccess file:

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 redirect 301 /old/old.html http://www.you.com/new.php

Nullig

[soulja90]

Hi Yall,

I tried that method before but I keep getting a file not found error, plus I noticed the url looks different (has a this part ?page=), which doesn't make it redirect.

Here is how my .htacess looks right now:

redirect 301 /Electronics-Dropshippers.html http://www.wdclub.com/articles/dropship ... pshippers/

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /


# 301 Redirect all requests that don't contain a dot or trailing slash to
# include a trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.
RewriteRule ^(.*) %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L]

# Rewrites urls in the form of /parent/child/
# but only rewrites if the requested URL is not a file or directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?page=$1 [QSA]

So after this when you go to http://www.wdclub.com/Electronics-Dropshippers.html it looks like below with file not found:

http://www.wdclub.com/articles/dropship ... ppers.html

[Nullig]

How about if you try:

redirect 301 /Electronics-Dropshippers.html http://www.wdclub.com/index.php?page=el ... opshippers

Nullig

[soulja90]

that would defeat the purpose as search engines find /name urls better than ?=whatever

Thanks  for the insight tho

[heatherfeuer]

By the time you get the redirect working, most search engines should have crawled your new pages anyway.

[mahjong]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /index.php?page=$1 [QSA,L]

[soulja90]

the slash before the index was a good idea but didn't work.



Thanks for the input tho

JB

[mahjong]

What happened?

[soulja90]

same thing - not found error

and the url is still like this:

http://www.wdclub.com/articles/dropship ... ppers.html

However:

I found something that might help the experts here figure something out:

have a look at this:

http://www.webconfs.com/url-rewriting-tool.php

you enter a url and it tells you what to do - i'm still tryin to figure this out but if you can help please. Thanks!

[Pierre M.]

Hello, I hope I understand well...

I see two separate things here :
1°)Making the new site work with pretty URLs. Make this work FIRST.
2°)301 redirect the old URLs to the new ones.

The first is easy, just RTFM
My advice : choose ".html" ending URLs. (you should take it, this was your choice for your old static site).

The second is the borring one. On your old hosting location you must write a long N lines .htaccess :
Redirect 301 /path/to/old/page1.html /the/new/URL/to/page1.html
Redirect 301 /another/path/to/page2.html /the/other/URL/to/new/page2.html
...
Redirect 301 /path/to/last/pageN.html /the/new/last/URL/to/last/pageN.html
as others have said.
This comes first in the .htaccess, before the rewrites (as you seems to be on the same host). But only AFTER the new pretty URLs are working.

Pierre M.

[soulja90]

Hi,

I already had seo friendly urls

it just wasnt happeniung - so i changed the seo friendly urls to .htm and it worked than

I guess thats friendly enough hehe

THanks!

[mahjong]

Check your config.php file. It might be at the source of this weird problem.

$config['assume_mod_rewrite'] = true;
$config['page_extension'] = 'html';
$config['use_hierarchy'] = true;