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301 Redirect for multiple links
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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 -
Glad it works!
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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$2 [R=301,L]
Thanks!
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Yeah, that would be a lot of lines to add manuall., I would try the htaccess Rewrite function.
<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /RewriteRule ^(.)urban-living(.)$ yoursite.com/$1urban$2 [R=301,L]</ifmodule>
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-dRewriteRule ^(.*)$ 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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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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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-valeHope this helps, if not, let me know if you have any questions!
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