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Assistance with code for 301 redirect
I have taken over the hosting of a new website and need to redirect the existing pages that may be in Google or saved by users as the directory structure has changed:
Old format: http://www.domainname.com/cgi-bin/forum/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB..pl?num=1234567
New format: http://www.domainname.com/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1234567
I have tried:
Redirect /cgi-bin/forum/cgi-bin/yab
But it fails with a 404 error.
Could someone help with exact .htaccess file syntax I need to get it working? Rewrite is supported.
Thanks.
Old format: http://www.domainname.com/cgi-bin/forum/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB..pl?num=1234567
New format: http://www.domainname.com/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1234567
I have tried:
Redirect /cgi-bin/forum/cgi-bin/yab
But it fails with a 404 error.
Could someone help with exact .htaccess file syntax I need to get it working? Rewrite is supported.
Thanks.
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Do you mean that the URL in the address bar doesn't change after the redirect? Or something else?
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Hi,
It's working fine, and your solution was spot on.
The additional confusion was due to the caching of the browser pages, once cleared it was fine.
thanks,
Colin.
It's working fine, and your solution was spot on.
The additional confusion was due to the caching of the browser pages, once cleared it was fine.
thanks,
Colin.
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Yes you got it, I added the Rewrite Engine on and the old type links now work perfectly.
However I notice that when I link fron one of the 'new pages' in the http://www.domainname.com/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1234567 format that the displayed url is the old
http://www.domainname.com/cgi-bin/forum/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB..pl?num=1234567 format.
Is that OK and how it's supposed to work, I expected that the new format would be the displayed url?
Thanks.