How to implement 301?

[Greyer]

Hi everyone,

I have made some changes in my URLs and now want to 301 redirect the old pages to the new ones. I searched around to figure out how exactly to create the 301 rule in the .htaccess file. I tried several syntaxes but neither of them worked and one even crashed the server (500)

Can someone please post a detailed explanation of the 301 redirect rule that works in serendipity (special characters and everything)?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Tell us which ones you tried and we can tell you what's wrong about it

Can someone please post a detailed explanation of the 301 redirect rule that works in serendipity (special characters and everything)?

s9y is nothing different/specific than every .htacces RewriteRule, so you can google it up, there are many tutorials about this...

Regards,
Garvin

[Greyer]

I tried

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Redirect permanent /index.php?/archives/4-old-url.html /archives/new-url.html

which gave me a 500 error

tried the same code with full URLs - nothing.

Tried

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RewriteRule ^/index.php?/archives/old.html /archives/new.html [R] 

--still nothing

Tried the same with full second URL -- nothing
Tried with full URLs on both sides -- nothing...

I am either missing something in the code or I just don't write where I have to.

Can you guys tell me what to write in the .htaccess so I can redirect
mysite.com/index.php?/archives/4-old-url.html to mysite.com/archives/new-url.html

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

The first one I have not seen yet, I don't think this is a valid mod_rewrit eRule.

The second one is better, but URLs are matched by everything BEFORE the "?", and "?" is a special character in regular expressions.

Maybe you can try (according to http://fantomaster.com/faarticles/rewritingurls.txt which you can read through)

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RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^/archives/old.html$
RewriteRule ^.* /archives/new.html [R] 

HTH,
Garvin

[Greyer]

still nothing... I can't figure out what goes wrong. I have a hunch it is because of the " /index.php?/ " part of the old URL...

[Greyer]

Ok, so I added

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Redirect 301 /archives/old-url.html http://mysite.com/archives/new-url.html

and it DID redirect it to the new URL, but added " ?url=/archive " at the end of the new address. Any ideas how to remove it?

Also, for some reason in could not redirect /index.php?/archives/old-url.html to the new one, and I am pretty sure it has to do with that "?" in the middle.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Yeah, because of that "?" you need to use RewriteCOND and not only RewriteRule...

HTH,
Garvin

[Greyer]

I tried everything and the only rule that seems to be working is the Redirect 301 from my previous post, but it only works for URLs without the " index.php?" (URLs which are already rewritten with the functions_permalinks.inc.php file)

I am thinking that somewhere on the road there is something that overrides all the additional RewriteRules I enter and the only thing working is the Redirect 301 rule, but I can't find what it is.

Here is an exact copy of the .htaccess file

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# BEGIN s9y
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
DirectoryIndex /index.php
php_value session.use_trans_sid 0
php_value register_globals off

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^((archives/[0-9a-z\.\_!;,\+\-\%]+\.html)/?) index.php?/$1 [NC,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(authors/[0-9a-z\.\_!;,\+\-\%]+) index.php?/$1 [NC,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(feeds/categories/[0-9a-z\.\_!;,\+\-\%]+\.rss) index.php?/$1 [NC,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(feeds/authors/[0-9a-z\.\_!;,\+\-\%]+\.rss) index.php?/$1 [NC,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(categories/[0-9a-z\.\_!;,\+\-\%]+) index.php?/$1 [NC,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^archives([/A-Za-z0-9]+)\.html index.php?url=/archives/$1.html [NC,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)[_\-][0-9a-z_\-]*\.html index.php?url=$1-article.html [L,NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^feeds/(.*) index.php?url=/feeds/$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^unsubscribe/(.*)/([0-9]+) index.php?url=/unsubscribe/$1/$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^approve/(.*)/(.*)/([0-9]+) index.php?url=approve/$1/$2/$3 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^delete/(.*)/(.*)/([0-9]+) index.php?url=delete/$1/$2/$3 [L,QSA]
#RewriteRule ^(admin|entries)(/.+)? index.php?url=admin/ [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^archive/? index.php?url=/archive [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(index|atom[0-9]*|rss|b2rss|b2rdf).(rss|rdf|rss2|xml) rss.php?file=$1&ext=$2
RewriteRule ^(plugin|plugin)/(.*) index.php?url=$1/$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^search/(.*) index.php?url=/search/$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^comments/(.*) index.php?url=/comments/$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(serendipity\.css|serendipity_admin\.css) index.php?url=/$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^index\.(html?|php.+) index.php?url=index.html [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^htmlarea/(.*) htmlarea/$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule (.*\.html?) index.php?url=/$1 [L,QSA]



<Files *.tpl.php>
    deny from all
</Files>

<Files *.tpl>
    deny from all
</Files>

<Files *.sql>
    deny from all
</Files>

<Files *.inc.php>
    deny from all
</Files>

<Files *.db>
    deny from all
</Files>

# END s9y

Do you find anything out of the ordinary (the only change I have made is commenting out one of the lines, as I use the /admin.php for somehing else)

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

You should definitely put your custom rewriteRules as the first ones. Try to append [L] to its option so that htaccess stops parsing when your own rule is matched.

Regards,
Garvin