WordPress and Redirects

[RobDalton]

I just converted my site to wordpress.  Previously urls like www.waikoloavacationrentals.com/kolea-rentals/9g and www.waikoloavacationrentals.com/kolea-rentals/9g.html would go to the same page.  Since using wordpress the first one will not work.  I did not have redirects set up so was wondering if there is something I am forgetting to easily make it to where if someone types in both urls it will go to the same page.

[evolvingSEO]

Pages load correct at: http://www.waikoloavacationrentals.com/kolea-rentals/9g.html

And do not load at: http://www.waikoloavacationrentals.com/kolea-rentals/9g

So you need to Redirect http://www.waikoloavacationrentals.com/kolea-rentals/9g TO http://www.waikoloavacationrentals.com/kolea-rentals/9g.html

You can do this with the line of code in .htaccess

Redirect 301 /kolea-rentals/9g http://www.waikoloavacationrentals.com/kolea-rentals/9g.html

Let us know if that works?

You can also try the redirect plugin, although personally I prefer using .htaccess for redirects

[RobDalton]

Still no luck on this one if anyone else has any insight.

[RobDalton]

I sent it over.

[WilliamKammer]

Mind PMing me your. Htaccess?

[RobDalton]

That is what I originally had.  I put it back.

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /html/(.).html\ HTTP/
RewriteRule . http://localhost/html/%1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /html/(.)\ HTTP/
RewriteRule . %1.html [L]</ifmodule>

Try clicking on www.waikoloavacationrentals.com/kolea-rentals/9g and you will see what happens.  Thanks,

[WilliamKammer]

don't put your URL in for line 4, keep it as "localhost" like in the example.

[RobDalton]

Yes.  I am not getting anything on www.waikoloavacationrentals.com/kolea-rentals/9g

I don't really care which way the rule goes just as long as when they put in either url they get something.

Here is the code incase I typo'd something.

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /html/(.).html\ HTTP/
RewriteRule . http://www.waikoloavacationrentals.com/html/%1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /html/(.)\ HTTP/
RewriteRule . %1.html [L]</ifmodule>

[WilliamKammer]

Thanks! Although, yeah, not very easy to play with.

[WilliamKammer]

The code above will do the opposite.

domain.com/page.html will become domains.com/page

Did you test for that? Usually this is how people prefer their URLs to be, and if they type in the .html, they'll still get to the page.

[RobDalton]

Thanks for the feedbacks.  I tried the above code.  I also tried a few at the website above and did not have any luck.  Just to confirm what I am trying to do......Take a page like www.waikoloavacationrentals.com/kolea-rentals/9g.html.  If someone types in www.waikoloavacationrentals.com/kolea-rentals/9g I want it to go to www.waikoloavacationrentals.com/kolea-rentals/9g.html so that they do not get a blank page.  It was happening on my old site, but not having the same luck with wordpress.  Thanks again!

[Travis_Bailey]

Curly brackets between the unlink and bold portions of the kitchen sink. Apparently you have to make sure you've said what you need to say, because I couldn't find a way to intuitively shut off the block and type.

[Travis_Bailey]

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /html/(.).html\ HTTP/
RewriteRule . http://localhost/html/%1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /html/(.)\ HTTP/
RewriteRule . %1.html [L]</ifmodule>

[WilliamKammer]

I've never done this specific rule, but it would definitely be a rewrite rule in your .htaccess file in your root. You can give this piece a shot:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /html/(.*).html\ HTTP/

RewriteRule .* http://localhost/html/%1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /html/(.*)\ HTTP/

RewriteRule .* %1.html [L]

Jeez.... how do I get rid of all the extra spacing?!

Anyway, if that doesn't work, there are some other options here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5730092/how-to-remove-html-from-url

And if you need to customize the regex a bit, this can help: http://www.regexr.com/