Where to put 301 redirects in my Wordpress htaccess file?
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I have about 25 301 redirects in my Wordpress htaccess file, that look like this:
<code>Redirect301/store/index.html https://www.notesinspanish.com/store-home/</code>
At the moment they are at the bottom of my htaccess file, below the usual Wordpress rewrite rules:
<code># BEGIN WordPress <ifmodulemod_rewrite.c>RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] # END WordPress</ifmodulemod_rewrite.c></code>
So they are below all that. Above my WP rewrite rules I have a number of other rules from plugins (caching, ssl). Are my 301's OK where they are at the very bottom of that file? They are working, and redircting pages correctly. Should they be somewhere else?
Many thanks for any help.
Thanks for any help.
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Thanks HashtagHustler, yes, there is a space there, not sure how it got left out here! Thanks for your answer
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Hey there!
So the only thing that stands out to me is there is no space between Redirect 301 and /store. If this is working however I think you don't need to change anything. The htaccess is read in order, so as long as they are in there you should be ok! The only change I would make is listed below.
Redirect301/store/index.html https://www.notesinspanish.com/store-home/
should be
Redirect 301 /store/index.html https://www.notesinspanish.com/store-home/
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