I have setup a htaccess 301 redirect to redirect an indexed page to a new page, however this is also acting as a wildcard redirect for child pages which I do no what to happen.
Old structure
example.com/faq
example.com/faq/question-1
example.com/faq/question-2
etc etc
New structure
example.com/faqs
example.com/faq/question-1
example.com/faq/question-2
etc etc
htaccess redirect in place :
Redirect 301 /faq/ https://example.com/faqs/
This is working with no issues to send /faq to /faqs however it is also sending /faq/* to /faqs/* which I do not want to happen.
For example going to example.com/faq/question-1 causes a to many redirects error and finally lands on example.com/faqs/question-1
Is there anything i can add to the single redirect line to prevent this happening, or is their a more complex use of RewriteRule I could use instead. Research into the matter initially seem to confirm that this should/would happen, and if it does what can be added to prevent it. After a prompt to the apache docs I can see why they would redirect as a wildcard.
After suggests from CBroe an implementation of using RedirectMatch worked.
RedirectMatch 301 ^/faq/$ https://example.com/faqs
This now redirects /faq to /faqs, however doesn't redirect /faq/question-1 to /faqs/question-1 etc
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The scenario: I've moved a WordPress website to a new domain and want to 301 redirect all the pages from the old domain to the new domain. Both sites are on the same hosting account running Apache. The old site is at the root level (public_html), and the new site is in a subfolder (below/inside the root).
I've managed to make this work, but I'd like to learn and understand why it works. So below is a quick overview of my 'journey' and solution, together with three specific questions.
First I tried to do the redirects like this (code added to the root .htaccess file):
# 301 Page Redirects - not working - causes redirect loop
redirect 301 / https://new-domain.com/
redirect 301 /services/ https://new-domain.com/services/
redirect 301 /recipes/ https://new-domain.com/recipes/
But this causes a redirect loop. I'm guessing because the .htaccess file with these rules is at the root level and therefore also affects the subfolders.
Question 1: Is my assumption above about the reason for the redirect loop correct?
Then I tried to be more specific and put this code in the root .htaccess file instead:
# 301 Page Redirects - not working - does nothing at all - not sure why
redirect 301 https://old-domain.com/ https://new-domain.com/
redirect 301 https://old-domain.com/services/ https://new-domain.com/services/
redirect 301 https://old-domain.com/recipes/ https://new-domain.com/recipes/
I was hoping the above code would do the trick, because it's more specific about the old domain. My thinking was that it specifies the old domain exactly and so would circumvent the redirect loop. But instead this code seems to have no effect at all. The redirect loop was gone, but now no redirects were happening anymore at all.
Question 2: Why would the above code not produce any redirects at all?
Then I found this answer and applied the code from that, which works perfectly and creates all the redirects. Plus it's much more elegant than my previous attempts above. This is the code:
# 301 Redirects from old-domain.com to new-domain.com - THIS CODE WORKS - Yay!
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^old-domain.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.old-domain.com$
RewriteRule (.*)$ https://new-domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Question 3: Why does this code not cause any redirect loops when I place it in the root .htaccess?
I realise I'm copy/pasting code without fully understanding why it works. So I'd love an explanation in simple terms about these behaviours. Thank you.
Answer 1:
From the info that you have provided, I would say no. You did not specify if the new-domain.com website is configured (in apache configuration) with its document root being public_root or public_root/subfolder (judging by the described behaviour I would say it is the former). In that case, when you request https://old-domain.com/anything, the server will (because of the unconditional redirect in your first rule) respond with redirect to https://new-domain.com/anything. Client browser will then request that URL and it will hit the same Apache and same .htaccess, which will again result in the same redirect, causing the loop.
Answer 2:
Redirect syntax:
Redirect [status] [URL-path] URL
The old URL-path is a case-sensitive (%-decoded) path beginning with a
slash.
In your rule, you are specifying [URL-path] as https://old-domain.com/, which is wrong: it can be /, /services/, or /recipes, but not https://old-domain.com/ or https://old-domain.com/services/. The request [URL-path] does not match [URL-path] specified in your rule, so redirect never happens.
Answer 3:
This basically does the same thing as your first rule in Answer 1., with one important difference: the server will respond with redirect only if the hostname in request (or to be more precise, the content of the Host: header in request) is equal to old-domain.com or www.old-domain.com, which will prevent the loop since the second request from the client will use new-domain.com hostname.
Also, from the above, seems like your "new" website in subfolder will never be served: either if old-domain.com or new-domain.com is requested, the site from public_html folder will be shown (and only the hostname in clients browser address bar will change).
We have a global website and local websites for some countries. Now we need to redirect all local sites to global website in a way that we have each countries main page on global website. We are going to use sub pages of global site. My .htaccess looks like this:
Redirect 301 / http://newdomain.com/uk
Redirect 301 /about-us/ http://newdomain.com/about-us/
Redirect 301 /contact-us/ http://newdomain.com/contact-us/
Its working for home page but not working for sub pages. Instead of redirecting them to "http://newdomain.com/about-us/" it keep redirecting to "http://newdomain.com/ukabout-us/"
What to do?
NEVER USE 301 REDIRECTS
(unless 1) you know what you are doing 2) you know the consequences of what you are doing 3) you have extensively tested the configuration using 302 redirects).
I'm guessing that none of the 3 provisions above have been met in your case.
There is an implicit wildcard on the first path supplied as an argument to Redirect. To force a literal match, use RedirectMatch with anchors (e.g. "^/$"). Make sure you use 302 until you've got it working properly.
BTW getting the 301 redirects out of your browser is difficult - just clearing the cache does not always work.
I want to redirect my URLs to a new pattern. For this purpose, I used 301 redirect for every single URL but that are taking a huge time and my .htaccess file is going large and large as I have thousands of URLs.
So now Someone said to me to use .htaccess to use 301 redirect or rewrite engine option. Now I am new to .htaccess to use Pattern Redirect. First of all clear me out that is this possible to use 301 redirect in patterns? If yes then Can I do pattern 301 redirect in the below URLs? I want to redirect the below pattern so can you help me?
/search/label/XXXXXXXXXX to /category/XXXXXXXXXX
/year/month/XXXXXXXXXX.html/?m=0 to /year/month/XXXXXXXXXX.html
/year/month/XXXXXXXXXX.html/?m=1 to /year/month/XXXXXXXXXX.html
/search to /
/feed to /
XXXXXXXXXX means some text/no that are dynamic and changeable. year and month means only no that are also dynamic and changeable. / means site homepage. Rest are fixed text.
Please keep in mind that sometime there are many variables in every URL so we also want to avoid that that always start from ?variable=value&variable=value in the end of every URL.
After asking here, I keep trying myself too so I am able to do it and working on my side. I added below codes in my .htaccess file and after that I am able to redirect all upper URLs without any 404 error.
Redirect 301 /search/label http://www.example.com/category
Redirect 301 /search http://www.example.com
Redirect 301 /feed http://www.example.com
For 2,3 URL pattern, I did nothing because after checking, its not showing any 404 error as they are only variable in front of URL so no need to edit that.
Long story short, I am trying for the last 3 hours to perform what seems to be a basic url redirect. All the website requests to mysite.com/folder should be redirected to mysite.com/folder/subfolder/. The redirect should be performed "only!" if the user enters /folder. If he accesses /folder/file no redirect should happen.
I have tried the following but with no success, all attempts cause an infinite loop:
RewriteRule ^/folder$ /folder/subfolder/ [R]
Redirect 301 /folder /folder/subfolder/
I don't have access to the vhost file, neither am I allowed to perform this using php or a similar 'workaround'. Either way, htaccess should be the best place to do this. Can anybody shade a light on what I am doing wrong?
redirect use a prefix pattern matching, so instead you should use RedirectMatch with a regex, so that you will match only the directory access and not the file access in the subdirectory. You do not need the rewriteRule, which is doing the same thing.
This should work:
RedirectMatch ^/folder/$ /folder/subfolder/
Be careful, you used a 301 Redirect, 301 means permanent, so you may need to close your browser before testing the new rule, your browser has memorized the redirect permanent answer and will not ask it again until you close it.
My site has just recently launched a bunch of new product pages, replacing the old ones.
Here is an example of a redirect I want. One going from the old page...redirecting to the new page. I checked Google webmaster and said that there was a not found error for the second link.
Redirect 301 /it-infrastructure.html http://www.example.com/managed-enterprise-services.html
Redirect 301 /it-infrastructure http://www.example.com/managed-enterprise-services.html
So the .html one is redirecting fine...but the one without the .html extension is not. BUT...what's strange is that I have a bunch of redirects from the past that don't use the html ext and work fine, such as:
Redirect 301 /broadsoft-web-portal http://www.example.com/broadsoft-web-portal.html
and
Redirect 301 /business-voip http://www.example.com/business-voip.html
Anyone have any idea why this isn't working?
Add to your .htaccess this line
Options -MultiViews