need a redirect rule to send old permalink stucture to new one

  • Greetings
    Years ago, I set my custom permalinks to:
    /%postname%.html
    And now that I know this was a bad choice, I tried to change it to: /%category%/%postname%
    But the problem is that the links in google now give 404 error pages.
    Is there a code I can add to my htaccess to redirect links from the old strucutre to the new one please?

    Currently, my htaccess has this:

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

    # END WordPress

    Many thanks.

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Put this before the WordPress bit:

    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  # Always use www.
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC]
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

  # Change urlpath.html to urlpath
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com$ [NC]
  RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ https://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]
</IfModule>

    I’ve used this before and it works. You can probably get away with removing the www forcing, but I’m not sure and this way it’ll always be consistent.

    Thread Starter sallam

    (@sallam)

    Thanks for the code.
    Is there a code that doesn’t involve the www bit? I don’t use them as my blog is in a subdomain.
    what about a code to redirect
    from: /%postname%.html
    to: /%post_id%/%postname%

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Then just this may work

    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  # Change urlpath.html to urlpath
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain\.example\.com$ [NC]
  RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ https://subdomain.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]
</IfModule>

    The forcing the www was to make sure it was consistent, but if you’re on a subdomain, it shouldn’t be needed anymore.

    Thread Starter sallam

    (@sallam)

    Thanks, but your code didn’t work in my case.
    But thanks for trying to help.

    Thread Starter sallam

    (@sallam)

    any other help please?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Hmm. Okay, what I gave would translate example.com/foobar.html to example.com/foobar

    For postID/foobar though … I don’t know how you can move those, since the ID isn’t detectable from just the URL.

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