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    • shawnbeaird
      shawnbeaird last edited by

      I just relaunched my website and changed a permalink structure for several pages where only a subdirectory name changed.

      What 301 Redirect code do I use to redirect the following? I have dozens of these where I need to change just the directory name from "urban-living" to "urban", and want it to catch the following all in one redirect command.

      Here is an example of the structure that needs to change.

      Old 
      domain.com/urban-living (single page w/ content)
      domain.com/urban-living/tempe (single page w/ content)
      domain.com/urban-living/tempe/the-vale (single page w/ content)

      New 
      domain.com/urban 
      domain.com/urban/tempe 
      domain.com/urban/tempe/the-vale

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      • FrankViolette
        FrankViolette @shawnbeaird last edited by

        Glad it works!

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        • shawnbeaird
          shawnbeaird last edited by

          Got it. That works. I was using Yoast Premium Redirect tools.

          RewriteRule ^(.)urban-living(.)$ yoursite.com/$1urban$2 [R=301,L]   the "yoursite.com/" wasn't necessary.

          This did the trick. RewriteRule ^(.)urban-living(.)$ /$1urban$2 [R=301,L]

          Thanks!

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          • FrankViolette
            FrankViolette @shawnbeaird last edited by

            Yeah, that would be a lot of lines to add manuall., I would try the htaccess Rewrite function.

            <ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
            RewriteBase /

            RewriteRule ^(.)urban-living(.)$ yoursite.com/$1urban$2 [R=301,L]</ifmodule>

            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

            RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]

            RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.yoursite.com$ [NC]
            RewriteRule ^(.*)$ yoursite.com//$1 [L,R=301]

            I'm not an htaccess expert, so I'm not 100% sure that it will work, if not you can check out this stack overflow thread for an explanation of the code used above.

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            • shawnbeaird
              shawnbeaird last edited by

              I have more than a dozen... dozenS as in plural.  There are 80 pages with this and want to use a single command to capture all of them, not do them individually.

              Is there a way to to that?

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              • FrankViolette
                FrankViolette last edited by

                Since you only have a dozen of URLs you could just do a simple 301 redirect in your .htaccess file or you can get a little more technical and do a RewriteRule that would 301 "urban-living" to "urban'

                .htaccess 301 Redirect

                Redirect 301/urban-living /urban 
                Redirect 301/urban-living/tempe /urban/tempe
                Redirect 301/urban-living/tempe/the-vale /urban/tempe/the-vale

                Hope this helps, if not, let me know if you have any questions!

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