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301 .htaccess Redirect Trick

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After the implementation of WordPress, you should notice some of the URLs and paths on this site are different. To prevent getting 404 File Not Found error (traffic coming from links, bookmarks and search engines), I used this .htaccess 301 redirect trick I found. This way is better than meta refresh or redirect tag because there is no delay as the browser reads the .htaccess file first. However, it is only available to Linux server (doen’t work on Window server). Here is the trick.

Go to your site’s root folder, download the .htaccess file to your local computer and edit it with a plain-text editor (Notepad). If you are using FTP Client software and you don’t see any .htaccess file on your server, double check your setting and make sure you have turn on invisible / system files.

To redirect certain page(s):

Redirect 301 /oldpage.html http://www.yoursite.com/newpage.html
Redirect 301 /oldpage2.html http://www.yoursite.com/folder/

To redirect entire site:

Redirect 301 / http://www.new-site.com/

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    David Paul
    # 6

    October 6th, 2006 at 10:28 am

    I’ve done a guide on using htaccess files here:

    http://www.newearthonline.co.uk/article/68

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    Pimm
    # 5

    September 30th, 2006 at 4:38 pm

    Apache can deal with much more complicated redirections…
    See this article:
    http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html#RewriteEngine
    Or google ‘RewriteRule’

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    Sam
    # 4

    September 26th, 2006 at 5:49 pm

    Works on windows server if Apache is installed.

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    bob
    # 3

    September 21st, 2006 at 4:52 pm

    lk

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    Aaron
    # 2

    September 18th, 2006 at 9:22 pm

    Redirect in ColdFusion

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    Ben
    # 1

    September 17th, 2006 at 12:30 pm

    Wow, like the tutorial nice :-]

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