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Setting up Permanent Redirects (and .html go to .php)

May 3, 2012 5:48 PM

Hi all,

 

There is a bigger story but I'll try to keep to just the main issue... I'm a newbie at this so please forgive terms etc.

 

 

GOAL: Setting up permanent redirects from oldsite.com (all html) to newsite.com  (all with the same urls file name but all now = .php)

 

So I want to do 2 things:

 

1 - redirect everything from old site to new site

2 - redirect ALL OLD .htm and .html to NEW .php like:

 

EX: oldsite.com/folder1/test1.html to  newsite.com/folder1/test1.php

 

so in oldsite.com in .htaccess file I added:

 

1 -  at bottom...

redirect 301 / http://www.newsite.com/

 

THAT SEEMS TO WORK

 

2 - below or above previous both did not work...

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1.php [L]

 

THAT SEEMS TO NOT WORK - it goes to new site but stays on the .html page not the .php version of the same page

 

Q: How do I get this working?

1670 Views   8 Replies   Latest reply: revdave, May 15, 2012 8:20 AM
 
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  • Sudarshan Thiagarajan
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    1. Sudarshan Thiagarajan,
    May 3, 2012 11:18 PM   in reply to revdave
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    You should ideally redirect wildcard from the old domain to the new domain. You need not modify .htaccess. You could use your cPanel to do this for you. Login to cPanel > Redirects. Configure your new domain as a wildcard redirect with 301 Permanent here.

     

    Renaming files from .html to .php happens on your new domain. Open the root .htaccess on your new domain and paste the following code all the way at the top:

     

    Options +Indexes

    Options +FollowSymlinks

    RewriteEngine on

    RewriteBase /

    RewriteRule ^([^.]+)\.php$ $1.html [L]

    Try it out and let us know how it works.

     

    A quick tip: People usually rewrite .php to .html for SEO (even though it doesn't really matter)! But, this is the 1st time I'm seeing a request for rewriting .html to .php! Is there a specific reason why you're moving to .php? Do you have a lot of .php code on your new site?

     
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  • osgood_
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    2. osgood_,
    May 4, 2012 12:55 AM   in reply to revdave
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    You can do this in the htaccess file like below listing all the sites pages BUT it's a bit long winded if you have 30 plus page. There is  much shorter method than listing all the pages which I can't remember but maybe someone else can.

     

     

    redirect 301 /pages/about_us.html http://www.yourDomainName.com/pages/about_us.php

     

    redirect 301 /pages/latest_news.html http://www.yourDomainName.com/pages/latest_news.php

     
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  • revdave
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    3. revdave,
    May 5, 2012 5:50 PM   in reply to Sudarshan Thiagarajan
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    Hi Sudarshan,

     

    Thanks for your help. This did not go from html to php...

     

    Options +Indexes

    Options +FollowSymlinks

    RewriteEngine on

    RewriteBase /

    RewriteRule ^([^.]+)\.php$ $1.html [L] - did not work

     

    but this line change did work....

     

    RewriteRule ^([^.]+)\.html$ $1.php [L] - did work

     

    -----------------

     

    However the url at site 2 uses the php page but the url says .html

     

    I want to end up on the real .php page....

     

    so - maybe I do not want any rewrite at all - but just a basic redirect?

     

    MAIN GOAL: to go from old site 1 (html) to site 2 with php equivalents *AND KEEP ALL GOOGLE AND OTHER SEARCH ENGNE RANKINGS!!!!

     

    I'm only guessing at the best proceduce so I'd really appreciate some help

     

    BTW: and yes we did add php functionality to the new site - that's why the change....

     
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  • revdave
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    4. revdave,
    May 5, 2012 6:18 PM   in reply to revdave
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    I found this...

     

    RedirectMatch 301 (.*)\.html$ http://www.example.com$1.php

     

    here - http://www.webweaver.nu/html-tips/web-redirection.shtml

     

    and I put it on SITE 1

     

    IT SEEMS LIKE *EXACTLY WHAT I NEED* ....

     

    and it goes from site 1 to site 2 but does not redirect to the pgp page

     

    Am I doing something wrong?

     

    here's what author said...

    Changed file extension?

    This example is perfect if you've decided to switch to .php from .html pages. It will look for any .html page and redirect it to .php (ie http://www.example.com/yourpage.html and redirect it to http://www.example.com/yourpage.php). Now, be careful with this, it does mean any html page. I did this on one of my sites and had totally forgotten I had an iframe with .html content on some pages... I didn't notice for weeks that it was broken :S.
    So learn from my mistake ;-) check, double check, then check again.

     
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  • revdave
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    5. revdave,
    May 5, 2012 6:31 PM   in reply to osgood_
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    Hi osgood,

     

    your line at site 1 does work just right....

     

    redirect 301 /test1.html http://www.site2.com/test1.php

     

    it would seem to dod the MAIN job of *KEEPING GOOGLE RANKINGS* - CORRECT?

     

    so I wonder if there's a way on site1 to NOT have to list every page and just do some king of master rewrite here like:

     

    take all .html and redirect to SITE2 and ALL .php...........

     
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  • revdave
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    6. revdave,
    May 14, 2012 9:48 AM   in reply to revdave
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    So I'm just double checking that this method listing each page individually on  .htaccess file should be the best way to move from .htm or .html TO .php &  *PRESERVE GOOGLE RANKINGS* - CORRECT?

     

     

    redirect 301 /mypage1.html http://www.samesite.com/mypage1.php

    redirect 301 /mypage2.htm http://www.samesite.com/mypage2.php

    etc.

     
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  • osgood_
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    7. osgood_,
    May 14, 2012 11:37 PM   in reply to revdave
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    revdave wrote:

     

    So I'm just double checking that this method listing each page individually on  .htaccess file should be the best way to move from .htm or .html TO .php &  *PRESERVE GOOGLE RANKINGS* - CORRECT?

     

     

    redirect 301 /mypage1.html http://www.samesite.com/mypage1.php

    redirect 301 /mypage2.htm http://www.samesite.com/mypage2.php

    etc.

     

     

    I'm not sure its the most efficient way but its the way I have done it in the past to preserve Google rankings.

     
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  • revdave
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    8. revdave,
    May 15, 2012 8:20 AM   in reply to osgood_
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    Thanks osgood - I'm using this concept and it seems to work well. time will tell about the rankings.

     
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