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php.allstar

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Hi,

I regularly post replies to people on here looking for help woth various php issues.

Now however, I would like some help myself!

I have updated my website dogzone.ie to use classipress which is a classifieds ads theme for wordpress.

Now I would like to point all the old links to their new locations with the help of 301 redirect rules in a .htaccess file.

Can anyone help me with this? I've thrown everything but the kitchen sink at this problem at this stage.

For example, I would like to redirect this:
http://www.dogzone.ie/pups-for-sale/french-bulldog
to this:
http://www.dogzone.ie/sections/french-bulldog-dogs-for-sale-in-ireland/
My .htaccess file looks like this:

Code:
# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress
I would be very grateful if you could sort this one out for me.
 

davkell

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Not exactly answering your question, but I was looking at this Redirect plugin today (I'm going to have to do something similar on a site in the next couple of days). It looks handy - it avoids having to write .htaccess rules for all pages.
 

php.allstar

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Hi,

I've used .htaccess rewrites on practically all of the sites I've worked on, well versed in regular expressions etc. Yet for some reason, no matter what rules I put in, I could not get it to work. I'm sure my regular expressions were bang on...

I put it all down to the default wordpress rewrite rules causing the confusion in me...maybe they were somehow overwriting my rules?

Maybe its the fact that I went with the dreaded /%category%/%postname%/ permalink structure (I just wanted ultra clean urls - performance is not a big issue on this site)

Nonetheless, I've tried the plugin you both recommended and it's great. Working like a charm. Supports regular expressions too which is a huge plus.

While I would still love to know why I couldn't get the rewrite rules in the .htaccess to work, you can consider my problem solved! Thanks
 
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