301 redirect old site URLs

  • Resolved joffff

    (@joffff)


    14 years ago

    An old site has been redesigned using WordPress and I’d like to redirect old pages to their equivalent in WordPress.

    The old site used a CMS which had pages in the format of index.php?page=2 which conflicts with WordPress’s own querystring structure. I’ve got around 20 URLs to redirect, all as index.php?page=x

    I’ve tried using mod_rewrite as such:

    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} page=2
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ https://www.domain.co.uk/new/wordpress/page/ [R=301,L]

    But of course WordPress treats it as it’s own URL and not a rewritten one. Any suggestions?

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Did you put that ABOVE the WP calls in htaccess?

    Thread Starter joffff

    (@joffff)

    No, I’d put it after!
    Thanks, it’s now at least acting on the rule first, but it’s now getting caught in a redirect loop.

    If it helps, the entire .htaccess contents are:

    SetEnv DEFAULT_PHP_VERSION 5

DirectoryIndex index.cgi index.php

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} page=2
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ https://www.domain.co.uk/newpage/ [R=301,L]

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

    Removing the L from the redirect rule just gives a 301 Moved Permanently message.

    Thread Starter joffff

    (@joffff)

    I’ve come up with a solution, but not sure if it’s the correct one. Instead of redirecting to the permalink URL (which wasn’t working as above), I’ve redirected to the non-permalink URL (domain.com/?p=1).

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    That works too. It you only have 20 pages, though, you may as well just do this:

    Redirect 301 /index.php?page=2 https://www.domain.co.uk/newpage/

    for all 20.

    Thread Starter joffff

    (@joffff)

    Thanks (again), that’s much simpler! ??

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