301 Redirects
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Hello, All. Hopefully this will be an easy question for some of you.
I have a (WordPress) site with the format of:
http://www.site.com/folder-old/page-old/
I have since re-named both the parent and sub-folders to (example):
http://www.site.com/folder-new/page-new/
Everything is working well EXCEPT I am also trying to redirect visitors from the old URL/structure to the new. I have a 301 redirect setup as the following:
Redirect 301 /folder-old/page-old/ http://www.site.com/folder-new/page-new/
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But it doesn't seem to be working. Not sure if this is something finicky with WordPress or if the redirect is incorrect. Thank you.
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Thanks for the feedback. I've tried both (full URL and no URL leading) and neither work. It seems to always redirect to the new "/folder-new/" but the old "/page-old/" no matter what.
For example:
Redirect 301 /folder-old/page-old/ /folder-new/page-new/
results in:
http:///www.site.com/folder-new/page-old/
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Adding a # to the beginning of a line of code in the htaccess file will make it redundant, it is used for adding comments into the file.
Try it without the # at the beginning but with both full URLs
Redirect 301 http://site.com/folder-old/page-old/ http://site.com/folder-new/page-new/
I always use 301 redirects without the full URLs and it works fine so try the below if the above doesn't work.
Redirect 301 /folder-old/page-old/ /folder-new/page-new/
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Thanks. Adding the "#" didn't work. I will try the plug-in. Thanks.
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Hey,
Have you tried to use "#Redirect 301 http://site.com/folder-old/page-old/ http://site.com/folder-new/page-new/"
This should work out if you still face any issue try to do it with this plugin.
Hope this helps!
Umar
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