Target URL inherits source URL

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  • Thread Starter eaglejohn

    (@danielbenjamins)

    Would really like some help and support on this issue. I can give you admin access to the website.

    This should work. Its not using your CSV file but the regex method, you can see i tried a few other URLs just to make sure it only matched what you wanted to capture.

    https://regex101.com/r/R16pv0/7

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by xgstq.
    Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    I’m not really sure what the question is. If the regular expression that xgstq linked to helps then great.

    Thread Starter eaglejohn

    (@danielbenjamins)

    I’m not using regex and I don’t want to. I just want the source url to redirect to the target url. The question is why this isn’t working. Why is there a CSV import function when the plugin is not using it, and instead is doing something else?

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by eaglejohn.
    Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    As I said, I don’t really understand the problem. The import process imports things into Redirection. It has no other effect after that. If you were able to import then it worked, and isn’t doing anything else.

    Can you show a screenshot of the redirect you think should be affecting the URL?

    @ John

    You can use just one regex instead of uploading all of your sites old vs new links.

    Ive never tried the CSV upload personally, but I do know of friends that have used it, so I know it works.

    For your problem I would just use this regex that redirects the domain from oldsite to newsite and keeps the remaining url format in tact

    https://regex101.com/r/MyJAN9/1

    How to enter it into the redirection plugin >> https://imgur.com/a/myNPXzn

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by xgstq.
    Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    @xgstq I don’t think eaglejohn wants to redirect everything, and is trying to import specific redirects from a CSV

    Thread Starter eaglejohn

    (@danielbenjamins)

    Exactly

    Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    What is the status of this problem?

    Thread Starter eaglejohn

    (@danielbenjamins)

    The status is that it’s still not working and no one knows what’s going on ??

    The only thing I can think of is that, because the client has 2500+ redirects, there are duplicate redirects and things got messed up. I did some random checks and have seen many duplicates already.

    There’s also this issue that the client is gets a different result/target than I get for the same redirect. This concerns a duplicate (same source, different target).

    And I also have a feeling that there might be (a lot of) redirects on the target site as well, but I don’t have access to that website…

    You can use a Chrome browser like redirect trace to see the redirects path https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/link-redirect-trace/

    Sounds like you have some Excel work to do ??

    I’d be taking that sheet and looking to simplify all those 2500 redirects into as least as possible using regex.

    Also use the group’s feature built in and make groups of redirects.

    It does sound like you have redirects over redirects, use the log and the Chrome plugin to see what is firing.

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