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Hi there,

So I built a site and removed index.php using this .htaccess code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

The client now wants to add 301 Redirects to the .htaccess file. What’s the best way to do that without breaking the site?

Thanks!

[Mod Edit: Moved to the CodeShare Corner]

So I’ve been playing around with this and I’ve had some success, but still problems:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^about/(.*)$ /dr_dee_tadlocks_reading_revolution/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^school/(.*)$ /k_12/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^native/(.*)$ /native_peoples/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^individual/(.*)$ /private_tutoring/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^workforce/(.*)$ /workforce_literacy/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^news/(.*)$ /in_the_news/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

The first problem is that some of the redirects work, while others (school & workforce) go to the 404 page. My other problem is that I also need redirects for index.html and index.htm, but there seems to be an issue because of the index.php removal.

Any ideas? Thank you!

Any progress on this - I need to do something similar…

Hi @CIB,

Here’s an abridged version of what I ended up with:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index\.htm$ <a href="http://www.myurl.com/">http://www.myurl.com/</a>  [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ <a href="http://www.myurl.com/">http://www.myurl.com/</a>  [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^about(.*) /about/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^history(.*) /history/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^news(.*) /in_the_news/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

I was having those problems because my genius of a client decided to upload folders to the root of the site with the same names as the pages I was trying to redirect from, resulting in a loop.

You might also check out this thread, which I think uses a method that’s a lot easier to understand.

Hope that helped, this .htaccess business can be a real pain.