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The original site contained a .html extension for each page (built in Joomla).  The new EE site didn’t have the .html extension by default and so had to be added once realized after launch. 

We can’t however figure out how to get the non .html pages to point to the .html pages, and the search engines are seeing them.  These pages contain nothing other than the basic page elements (header/footer, etc) w/out any content.

I’ve tried server versions of .htaccess modifications to fix this including 301 redirects including a hard redirect per page (below)

Redirect 301 /category/page/ http://www.mydomain.com/index.php/category/page.html

which also doesn’t work.  Any suggestions would be most appreciated at this point.

Hey cappymoo.media,

Thank you for posting your question here on the ExpressionEngine forums.

I may not be understanding this correctly, but why are you keeping the old html files around? Is it just for the Google results? Can you not remove everything and leave ExpressionEngine behind and let the site be re-indexed? Or do you have both installs residing at root and are trying to make that work?

Please let me know.

Can you also past your htaccess file contents into the thread?

Cheers,