Php 301 redirect

[ocelot]

Hi

I am migrating an old wordpress site to a custom PHP site and the URL profiles will be different, so want to retain all link profiles and more importantly if a user visits the old urls via search then they are seamlessly transferred to the new equivalent page

For example

www.domain.com/about-us is going to need to redirect to www.domain.com/aboutus.php

www.domain.com/furniture is going to need to redirect to www.domain.com/furniture-collections.php

etc

What is the best way of achieving this apart from .htaccess as not 100% confident of doing this.  Could it be done via PHP or using meta tags?

[IOHanna]

Hi, Not meta tags.  If no other way, You should do it with PHP  header() function.

<code>header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); header("Location: /somelocation");</code>

But you need to add some conditions to determine if the page should be redirected. For example to redirect /example.html  to https://www.new-domain.com/example   you need to write something like:

if (isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) && parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH) == '/example.html')

{header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');header('Location: https://www.new-domain.com/example');exit();}

It can be a lot of code, if you need to redirect many pages. In this case, You can try to use PHP 301 Redirect Generator -  https://www.301-redirect.online/php-header-location-generator

[bjs2010]

OK - take this page: www.domain.com/about-us

Presuming that this is a php page, open it up in an editor and insert this code right at the top
Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
Header( "Location: http://www.domain.com/aboutus.php" );
?>

and repeat this same procedure for any other files you need to redirect.

[ocelot]

Hi

Thanks for the link, it mentions under php

Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" ); 
Header( "Location: http://www.new-url.com" ); 
?>

So how would I implement multiple page changes in the code above i.e.

www.domain.com/about-us is going to need to redirect to www.domain.com/aboutus.php
www.domain.com/furniture is going to need to redirect to www.domain.com/furniture-collections.php

[bjs2010]

There are various ways of doing this and yes the good ol htaccess can be a bit daunting at first.

Check this page out, should help you.
http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php

You cannot do a 301 redirect with meta tags - a meta tag "refresh" does not provide a 301 redirect.

Useful hint: Before commiting to it, try using the same script either in PHP or HTACCESS but with a 302 (temporary redirect) - then test it works and then make it a 301 (permanent redirect) - that way if you get it wrong, Google will not take the permanent instruction.