Help Setting Up 301 Redirects from Coldfusion Site to Wordpress Site.
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I have created a new website and need to redirect all of the previous pages to the new one. The old website was built in coldfusion and the new site is built in wordpress.
One of the pages I'm trying to redirect is www.norriseal.com/products.cfm to http://norrisealwellmark.com/products/.
This is what I have in my .htaccess file
<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
Redirect 301 /products.cfm http://norrisealwellmark.com/products/</ifmodule>The result of this redirect is http://norrisealwellmark.com/products.cfm
How do I prevent the .cfm from appending to the destination URL?
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Hey Britney,
No, the old (ColdFusion) site and the new (PHP) site are on the same linux (CentOS) server.
The 301 redirect rule I described above in my original post is applying '.cfm' to the end of the destination URL - thats the main issue we're trying to tackle here.
Thanks for responding!
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Hi Chris,
Are you still using ColdFusion?
It sounds like you're on a Windows server, yeah? If so, adding this to your web.config file should do the trick:
<match url="(.*)"><conditions><add matchtype="IsFile" negate="true"><add matchtype="IsDirectory" negate="true"></add></add></conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="{R:1}.cfm"></action></match>Otherwise, adding the following to your web.config for WordPress should work:
<rulename="company cfm"=""><matchurl="^company (.*)$"=""><conditionslogicalgrouping="matchall"><addinput="{request_filename}"matchtype="isfile"negate="true"><addinput="{request_filename}"matchtype="isdirectory"negate="true"><actiontype="rewrite"url="{r:1}.cfm"></actiontype="rewrite"url="{r:1}.cfm"></addinput="{request_filename}"matchtype="isdirectory"negate="true"></addinput="{request_filename}"matchtype="isfile"negate="true"></conditionslogicalgrouping="matchall"></matchurl="^company></rulename="company>
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