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Thanks, the problem is resolved in 2012.0.1.38 with WP 3.3.1.

Your redirection rules look fine. I am thinking whether it is the browser cache that misled you. If you are using Firefox, you may clear the local cache at Tools > Options > Advanced > Network. I always clear local cache right after updating the rules. Hope this helps.

Yes, WP (rather than the Redirection plugin) does it for us.

I checked my raw access log and found WordPress replied my request of https://www.my-domain.com/?p=123 with a 301 redirect to https://www.my-domain.com/my-permalink/.

… without the regex-var $1 you’ll usually lose the content of the (.*) part …

You are absolutely right, and I think that is what sunriseweb expecting. He said:

The reason I want to use regex is that the sub-categories no longer exist either – so I want any references to the /category/village-voices/ category and any sub-categories, or posts within to go to /category/ooka-voices/ post listing.

You may input the exception rules firstly, and lastly input the generic rule. The generic rule will have the lowest priority.

The priority is determined by the “position” of the rules. It seems that you cannot adjust the positions of existing rules (anybody knows how to update it without manipulating the backend database table please kindly let me know). Fortunately in most cases the later you input a rule, the lower priority it is. Occasionally I found a new rule is placed at the midst of existing rules. It is a total mystery to me.

I suggest:

Source URL: /(.*)\.html$
Target URL: /$1
Regex: checked

Check the rule and click “Delete” at the bottom of the rule list.

Try:
Target URL = /category/ooka-voices/$1

I suggest:

Source URL = /category/village-voices/(.*)
Target URL = /category/ooka-voices/

You new link contains text not derivable from the old link, e.g. “23”, and “ufficiale-e-video-preview”. I think this plugin derives new links solely based on the text of old links, not other information of the post such as author, post date, category, etc.

It seems you have to enter one rule for each of your links.

The Apache module is an alternative to the WordPress module. You may leave it disabled and only use the WordPress module.

For comparison of the two modules, you may check out Redirection plugin official site.

Your “category” redirection looks fine. Some random thought:

1. Did you get the Source URL by copy-and-paste from the Redirection plugin 404 log? For unknown reason the text copied from this screen contains an invisible character before every “/”. I figured it out after scratching my head for a whole day.

2. You may clear the cache of your browser and try again. Firefox remembers the 1st version of the rule. It doesn’t query the server with Source URL anymore and go ahead with the cached Target URL.

By the way, I don’t think you need to change the rule to Regex. This plugin matches the Source URL with the prefix of the URL that it received from the browser, and replace this part with the Target URL. The trailing part will be kept in the generated URL.

Whenever I corrected a faulty rule in the Redirection plugin, it won’t take effect until I clear my Firefox cache. The updated rule does effective on the server immediately, it is just my Firefox remembers the old redirection rule and heads off to the old wrong destination right the way. Only after clearing the cache, Firefox sends the source URL to the server and the Redirection plugin has the chance to tell Firefox the new destination.

Hope it helps.

You don’t need to specify the server name.

Source URL = /category/categoryname/article
Target URL = /categoryname/article

Have you tried to clear the browser cache?