htaccess (redirect)

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Started 3 years ago by klhrevolution
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klhrevolution
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Okay, so I've got a lot of links out there. A little over 100 to be a little more precise. Before I had my htaccess setup for "pretty urls" or as pretty as I could get them.

Old-Example: http://greenvilleroad.info/index.php?option=viewEntry&filename=00047
New (pritlog default): http://www.greenvilleroad.info/index.php/viewEntry/00047/Theological-Differences-Between-North-and-South

My question is: Is there a way to redirect all posts to their new url's via .htaccess instead of visitors getting a "302 Moved temporarily (redirect)" ?

Posted 3 years ago #
john
Member

I've not examined the way clean urls was implemented in Pritlog because I keep using my own version I developed at the time we started to discuss the subject on this forum.

At least in my case, .htaccess only "translates" clean urls into its "non clean" form which is the format that the php script can understand to get the posted values it needs to work.

It doesn't work the other way. When somebody types a "non clean" url, it isn't catched by .htaccess because it doesn't fit the regular expression that triggers the "conversion", thus the url is passed unmodified to the script.

I just made a quick test again, and I can get the same page using clean or no clean urls, no differences and no 302 errors.

On my test blog you can see the .htaccess code I'm using
http://www.enbaires.com/blog1/viewEntry_00006.html

The post also mentions that "$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] has been replaced by index.php to avoid error when clicking a non-clean link after a clean one (the base url showed the wrong base i.e: mainPage.html?option=newEntry which doesn't work"

Posted 3 years ago #
Prit
Pritlogger

Hi Ken ... what is your original pretty url that you need to be redirected to the new url? Please post it here and I will find out how to do it through htaccess.

Posted 3 years ago #
klhrevolution
Member

Well, I'm wanting all the old url's to redirect to their new destinations. I've tried redirecting but it does not seem to work. I was hoping I could edit htaccess to do this but if it is something I could add to pritlog that would be fantastic..

Posted 3 years ago #
Prit
Pritlogger

Do you want the old url in your example (on the first post) to redirect to the new Pritlog url format?

Posted 3 years ago #
klhrevolution
Member

Yes, that' what I'm wanting. For my old url's to redirect to the new.

Posted 3 years ago #
Prit
Pritlogger
Hi Ken ... I played around a little while with different htaccess rules and the below one worked for viewEntry option. It is a little challenging to find this info in the internet because most people want to do the reverse - make the pretty url redirect to the ugly one.

Anyway, here is the one that worked on my local server.
```
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewriteCond %{query_string} ^option=viewEntry&filename=(.*)$
RewriteRule .* http://localhost/blog/index.php/viewEntry/%1/? [R=301,L]
```
Try changing localhost/blog to your website address and see if the viewEntry works. This should take care of all the viewEntry url's. If it does, then you may have to play around using similar Rewritecond statements if you want to rewrite all the links on the blog.
Posted 3 years ago #
john
Member

sorry I hit the button by mistake, nothing to say just reading :)

Posted 3 years ago #
klhrevolution
Member

Prit: That is awesome! But, If I may bug you once more.. I also have my old redirect url's like this one:
Is there also a rule to redirect these url's to the newer (pretty url's) ?
http://greenvilleroad.info/articles/viewEntry-00081.htm

Thanks a lot!

Posted 3 years ago #
Prit
Pritlogger
Hey Ken .. Try the below htaccess code. This worked on my local server. Change the localhost to your server location.
```
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^articles/viewEntry-(.*)\.htm$ http://localhost/index.php/viewEntry/$1 [NC]
```
Posted 3 years ago #
klhrevolution
Member

Cool, now all of the old links out there redirect to the new! Thank you so much prit!

Posted 3 years ago #
Prit
Pritlogger

You are welcome. Am glad it worked Ken.

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