301 redirectmatch
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I think I'm starting to loss my mind.
I have worked with regex before with very little problems how with my redirects nothing appears to be working. A little guidance is needed!
The Low down
I have a site with Joomla CMS backend.
The site is undergoing and SEO overhaul
I was simple hoping to use a 301 redirect o these old pages that are now a causing 404's
The addresses
/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=53_blank
/shop/product.php?id_product=11
I have tried the following redirects but no avail
RedirectMatch 301 ^/shop/product.php?id_product=11$ http://www.nomitang.com/index.php/en/vm_getaway_w this does not work at all
if I remove the ?.....ending then I can simply redirect the product page but this is not what we need.
Why does RedirectMatch not register anything after the "?"?
I also tried this
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=53_blank [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.nomitang.com/ [R=301,L]But this also didn't work.
Please could someone tell me how to redirect these url's and how to deal with the extrension
Thanks
Stefan
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Hi
I'm actually using 2.5.
I will take a look at the module but for my own piece of mind, I would like to understand how to use Redirectmatch\RewriteRule better.
Thanks
Stefan
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Hey Stefan,
You didn’t mentioned the version of Joomla you are using at the moment so it’s difficult to come up with the exact solution but why don’t you use URL redirection module
Check this out and this might help! http://www.seoeducation.in/how-to-redirect-url%E2%80%99s-in-joomla-with-sh404sef-module
Thanks!
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