301 redirect help
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Hey guys, I normally work in WordPress and just use a 301 redirect plugin. I bought a site and rather than maintain two similar ones have decided to redirect one to the other.
I am having trouble with the .htaccess file. Here is an example. These are two redirects:
redirect 301 /category/models/next/2
redirect 301 /category/modelsI want both of these URLs to redirect to the same URL of the new site. However, the /category/models is the only one working. It redirects to the new page just fine. The /category/models/next/2 is redirecting to nearly the same URL on the new site, only it is adding /next/2 to the end and that is bringing up a 404.
Why is it adding /next/2 to the new URL? How can I fix this? There are several doing this. Help appreciated!
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Hi,
I just did this and had similar issues
It looks like the .htaccess is correct at the old domain.
but you need to put in re-directors at the new domain that will take in these extra items due to these directories do not exist at the new domain.
There could be an easier way, without putting a redirect after a redirect (which possibly losses a little extra juice) but I am not aware of a way without redirecting all 404 queries.
after you have put back the 301 that was working at the OLD domain In the .htaccess at the NEW domain you would put
Redirect /category/models/next/2 http://www.example.com/
This will tell any queries for http://www.example.com/category/models/next/2
to redirect to http://www.example.com or whatever you put in....
hope this helps!
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Didn't seem to fix it. None of the redirects worked anymore. They all just changed the domain name, not redirect to the specified URL.
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Try changing the last line to:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://new-domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
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This is at the top of the .htaccess file:
rewritecond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.old-domain.com$ [OR]
rewritecond %{HTTP_HOST} ^old-domain.com$
rewriterule ^$ "http://new-domain.com/" [R=301,L]Does this need to be changed?
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Whats in your .htaccess file at the moment?
I think in your .htaccess your redirect should be setup something along the lines of:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.old-domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://new-domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Someone else could probably make that a bit neater but something like this should work.
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