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Expert: Jason J, Green Date: 5/4/2008 Subject: 301 redirect
Question Are you able to help me with a 301 redirect as the tech support guy of the host is no help
The old site is yamaha-flute-211.adsl24.co.uk
the pages are in public_html/html
The new site is a www.yamaha-flute-211.co.uk
the pages are in \yamahaflute211\html
I added the first line in the .htaccess file which worked
but I also need to redirect the other pages as the names have changed
When I add any more lines to the .htaccess
eg
redirect 301 /html/page_001.html http://www.yamaha-flute-211.co.uk/html/Alto_Saxophone_Accessories_Cleaning_Kits....
it gives a server error when I try to browse the old site
Is there a max line length restriction or can you see anything else that is wrong
I'm not really sure what path I should be using
I have tried different combinations still without success
Answer Hi Phil,
A possible simple solution is to see if your host can simply implement a site-wide 301 for you. Failing that you might want to play around with some .htaccess directives such as the following:
Of course you will need to make sure that your server's Apache install has Mod Rewrite.
For files that have a directory path as well as a name change you might want to try using regular expressions to come up with a conversion string that works across all or even most of them. Otherwise you will need to manually add 301 directives for each one.
