Hi Denverish, thanks for your reply, been months since i looked at this problem. It has returned so trying to sort it out. the redirects mentioned did not work. so any suggestions.

The CMS allows for 301 redirects via a form; place old url at the top of the form and the new url at the bottom and save,

But as I am trying to create a wildcard 301 redirect, i am not sure what code to place in these fields..see pic

tai

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Hi Matt, sorry for the delay in getting back.

Just working on your suggestions, I will let you know if it works

T

Hi Matt,

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^listing/(.*)$ http://www.5starweddingdirectory.com/business/ [R=301,L]

Did not work,

other urls flagged up in Google WM are/deal/ new: /deals/

http://www.5starweddingdirectory.com/deal/location/uk-england/buckinghamshire-weddings/newport-beach

http://www.5starweddingdirectory.com/deals/

thanks Matt

Hi Matt, thanks again.

Yes we are trying to redirect old urls to the relevant pages.

As we have so many old urls from old cms system which had different url structures, to do a wildcard to catch all 404s would be great. (wordpress plugin wp redirection achieves this http://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/)

RedirectMatch 301 ^/listing/.*$ http://www.5starweddingdirectory.com/business

But it did not redirect

http://www.5starweddingdirectory.com/listing/location/uk-england/essex-weddings

Thanks for your time on this.

Regards Tai

Hi Matt, and thank you for your response.

Not sure if i understand the solution to this problem though. The http://www.5starweddingdirectory.com/listing/......./ are from old legacy urls, and we have many. I am not sure why google webmaster is still picking up these old urls. but having 8k old not found urls is a worry.

Regards Tai

Hi all I hope that someone can help....

How can I fix multiple 404 errors with Wildcard htaccess redirect

The url in question is:

How can I fix multiple 404 errors with Wildcard htaccess redirect

http://www.5starweddingdirectory.com/listing/search/Category/luxury_hotels_venues_uk_wedding_venues/exclusive_use_venues/letter/c

http://www.5starweddingdirectory.com/listing/location/uk-england/bedfordshire-weddings/franklin-park

http://www.5starweddingdirectory.com/deal/location/uk-england/chorley-weddings/curtis-bay

etc, going to http://www.5starweddingdirectory.com/business

the above is just a few examples, google webmaster is showing over  8.000 404 page not found errors.

Thanks in advance.