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you can try RedirectMatch<br />
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RedirectMatch ^/dept/(.*)\.php$ /dept/$1.html<br />
RedirectMatch ^/cat/(.*)\.php$ /cat/$1.html<br />
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and so on
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you can try RedirectMatch

RedirectMatch ^/dept/(.*)\.php$ /dept/$1.html
RedirectMatch ^/cat/(.*)\.php$ /cat/$1.html

and so on

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Ok thx, so would I put this above or below, or in the existing redirect code?<br />
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Also does this do a 301 permanent redirect, ie so search engines will use the new link from then on etc...
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Ok thx, so would I put this above or below, or in the existing redirect code?

Also does this do a 301 permanent redirect, ie so search engines will use the new link from then on etc...

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I have an existing site that has many indexed pages, the site structure is going to change with the next software update and so I want to do 301 (??) permanent redirect so that old links are redirected to the new structure.<br />
<br />
URL's on old site are like:<br />
<br />
domain.com/dept/kw.php<br />
domain.com/cat/kw.php<br />
domain.com/subcat/kw.php<br />
<br />
The new structure is:<br />
<br />
domain.com/dept/kw.html<br />
domain.com/dept/cat/kw.htm<wbr />l<br />
domain.com/dept/cat/subcat<wbr />/kw.html<br />
<br />
<br />
The new site has an existing .htaccess file that redirects all to a index.php to process:<br />
<br />
RewriteEngine On<br />
RewriteBase /<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d<br />
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]<br />
<br />
<br />
What I'm not sure is, how do I within the same .htaccess get old links to redirect to new link structure permanantly and then with new structure redirect into the index.php ?<br />

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I have an existing site that has many indexed pages, the site structure is going to change with the next software update and so I want to do 301 (??) permanent redirect so that old links are redirected to the new structure.

URL's on old site are like:

domain.com/dept/kw.php
domain.com/cat/kw.php
domain.com/subcat/kw.php

The new structure is:

domain.com/dept/kw.html
domain.com/dept/cat/kw.html
domain.com/dept/cat/subcat/kw.html


The new site has an existing .htaccess file that redirects all to a index.php to process:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]


What I'm not sure is, how do I within the same .htaccess get old links to redirect to new link structure permanantly and then with new structure redirect into the index.php ?


Apache Mod Rewrite with .htaccess redirecting site from old structure to new...

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