Trying to redirect using 301 in htaccess
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- Rakesh
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I am trying to redirect URLs using the string below in the .htaccess file on apache/windows but it doesnt seem to work, any ideas why? I am using sh404SEF and I could redirect using that if I knew the old non-sef url but I dont.
I changed a section name and want the old links pointing to the new links.
OLD URL;
www.yoursapna.com/index.php/ Planning-articles/choosing-a-venue.html
NEW URL;
www.yoursapna.com/index.php/ Wedding-Planning-Articles/choosing-a-venue.html
Line I am using in .htaccess;
Redirect 301 /choosing-a-venue.html www.yoursapna.com/index.php/Wedding-Plan...hoosing-a-venue.html
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- prim
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- Maybe not a good solution but can you disable SEF and manually copy the link you want to change?
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- DanG
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- Rakesh
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To get my htaccess file to work I did the following. I run the site on Windows so this may not be applicable to linux hosts. I also use sh404sef.
In .htaccess add
######## Start Domain redirection
## This code redirects NON-WWW URLs to WWW URLs
## This helps prevent duplicate content
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.yoursapna\.com
RewriteRule (.*) www.yoursapna.com/$1 [R=301,L]
######## END Redirect domain redirection
In httpd.conf uncomment mod_rewrite
In httpd.conf add AccessFileName .htaccess
In httpd.conf check and amend;
<Directory "C:/Web/Sites/www.yoursapna.com">
Options All
Allow from All
Order Allow,Deny
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
In Joomla, enable mod_rewrite and SEF URLs - you need this even if you run sh404sef.
sh404sef redirect non-www to www domain name does not work. The above solution fixes this.
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