Redirect broken links

Oak · Apr 16th, 2008, 17:53

I changed the names of some of my web pages. Can someone provide code for redirect the old links?

Thanks

Rob · Apr 17th, 2008, 01:14

what technology do the old liks use oak? html, asp, php?

Oak · Apr 17th, 2008, 18:15

Well, all the files end in .php, but they don't all use php code.

aso186 · Apr 17th, 2008, 18:23

Do you know if you're running the Apache web server?

You can use a .htaccess in the root of your web server to redirect certain pages to new ones.

For example, to redirect old.php to new.php, use;

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Redirect /old.php http://yoursite.com/new.php

Oak · Apr 17th, 2008, 19:16

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Do you know if you're running the Apache web server?

You can use a .htaccess in the root of your web server to redirect certain pages to new ones.

For example, to redirect old.php to new.php, use;

Yes, Apache.

The code seems very straight forward. If there were many pages would I insert the following into my .htaccess file?

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Redirect /old.php http://yoursite.com/new.php
Redirect /old2.php http://yoursite.com/new.php
Redirect /old3.php http://yoursite.com/new.php

- saltedm8

I like that, def useful, so I would use your code for files that don't exsist as well as the code given by aso186 for old links. Resulting in everything being redirected!?

Oak · Apr 17th, 2008, 19:18

Hang on, where did saltedm8's reply go??

Therefore · Apr 18th, 2008, 07:47

Yes make changes in the htaccess file. Also it worth to make 301 redirect on server side to keep good SEO results.

saltedm8 · Apr 18th, 2008, 09:36

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Hang on, where did saltedm8's reply go??

sorry, i accidentally deleted it and did not have time to re-write it

Oak · Apr 18th, 2008, 21:09

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Yes make changes in the htaccess file. Also it worth to make 301 redirect on server side to keep good SEO results.

Sorry can you explain in more detail, thanks.

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sorry, i accidentally deleted it and did not have time to re-write it

Any chance of re-posting?