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.htaccess 301 Redirect Help! Specific Redirects and Blanket Rule
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Hi there,
I have the following domains:
OLD DOMAIN: domain1.co.uk
NEW DOMAIN: domain2.co.uk
I need to create a .htaccess file that 301 redirects specific, individual pages on domain1.co.uk to domain2.co.uk
I've searched for hours to try and find a solution, but I can't find anything that will do what I need.
The pages on domain1.co.uk are all kinds of filenames and extensions, but they will be redirected to a Wordpress website that has a clean folder structure.
Some example URL's to be redirected from the old website:
http://www.domain1.co.uk/charitypage.php?charity=357
http://www.domain1.co.uk/adopt.php
http://www.domain1.co.uk/register/?type=2
These will need to be redirected to the following URL types on the new domain:
http://www.domain2.co.uk/charities/
http://www.domain2.co.uk/adopt/
http://www.domain2.co.uk/register/
I would also like a blanket/catch-all redirect from anything else on www.domain1.co.uk to the homepage of www.domain2.co.uk if there isn't a specific individual redirect in place.
I'm literally tearing my hair out with this, so any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
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Hi Steve,
htaccess can be tricky! That link above is a good overview of the options. What you want in your case I think is to make sure that the specific individual page url rewrites are before the generic domain rewrite so they are triggered first and the generic redirect is only triggered if none of the individual page urls above it are hit.
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I've found this as a good source in the past, not sure if you have already checked it out:
http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/blog/search-engine-optimization/301-redirects/
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