301 redirects in .htaccess file

It shouldn’t be a problem really: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_redirection#Apache_mod_rewrite

What is the problem you’re running into? What URLs are you redirecting to where?

Thanks for your quick response, this is what I mean.

The current URL is https://current.com/contact.php
The temp URL is https://temp.com/contact/
The new URL after going live will be https://current.com/contact/

What I would like to do is forward the current URL to the new URL after the new website is launched so that

https://current.com/contact.php -> https://current.com/contact/

Something like this in .htaccess should work

RewriteRule ^contact\.php$ /contact/? [L,R=301]

Additionally, you can use https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/safe-redirect-manager/ if you don’t want to mess around with your .htaccess file.

I would like to reanimate this topic as I am having trouble setting up a redirect.

What I try to achieve is to redirect BOTH, requests to my domain using WWW, and/or the ones using HTTP to the https version without www.

In other words:
https://www.mydomainname.com –> https://mydomainname.com
https://mydomainname.com –> https://mydomainname.com
https://www.mydomainname.com –> https://mydomainname.com

I’ve combed through countless tutorials, both in blogs and on youtube, but they always treat only ONE aspect of the above.

The confusing thing is that my .htaccess file already has a code snippet for a redirect by WordPress. So I tried to combine the two myself and copied and pasted the part marked with comments to my .htaccess file:

# 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]

# My own301 redirect BEGIN
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomainname\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://mydomainname.com/$1 [L,R=301]
# My own 301 redirect END

</IfModule>
# END WordPress

This got me into trouble, as the WordPress theme apparently couldn’t find stylesheets anymore, and clicking links to the WPAdmin console resulted in errors 404.

How do I do it right?

Thanks in advance for any assistance,
Sascha

• This reply was modified 8 years ago by superninchen.
• This reply was modified 8 years ago by superninchen.