How to add 301 for many urls
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Hi
I need to redirect many urls in a website and I was wondering if instead of doing it one by one there is a way to get it the other way round.... Redirect all pages but a few.
I get a feeling this is not possible, but prefer asking just in case. Thanks for any feedback
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Thanks Paul
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It's entirely possible to write redirect rules that basically apply a consistent rule to all URLs except the ones you specify, Luis. It's accomplished by using functionality called Regular Expressions. It can be critical to do so if it means your redirects can be handled by a few carefully constructed rewrites using regex instead of hundreds or thousands of individual rules.
Paul
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Thank you both, that´s perfect. I´ll use it for sure.
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Interesting tool I haven't seen before
-Andy
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Hi There
Agree with Andy. However if you have many URLs to fo redirect via htaccess you can use this tool just paste your all old urls and define your rule of redirect. it will generate a complete list of new rules and paste that to your htacess file.
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Hi Luis,
You can actually do this via your .htaccess file where you would use an asterisk (*) as a wildcard and give the site expressions to 301 to another location, but this is going to 301 all pages to the same location, which I am assuming you don't want to do.
How many URL's are we talking about?
-Andy
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