WordPress and Redirects
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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.
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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
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Still no luck on this one if anyone else has any insight.
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I sent it over.
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Mind PMing me your. Htaccess?
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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,
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don't put your URL in for line 4, keep it as "localhost" like in the example.
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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> -
Thanks! Although, yeah, not very easy to play with.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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<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> -
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/
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