htaccess Question

blacktrilby

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I want to move a site from joomla to wordpress.
All the current urls have underscores in them

Is the a way to do a permanent redirect for all urls
eg. mysite.com/this_is_a_page

to
mysite.com/this-is-a-page

or would I have to redirect all pages seperately?
Thanks
BT

 

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nickvincente

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sure, If you need to change the URL of a page as it is shown in search engine results, we recommended that you use a server-side 301 redirect. This is the best way to ensure that users and search engines are directed to the correct page. The 301 status code means that a page has permanently moved to a new location.
read more at http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=93633

 

blacktrilby

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Thanks but what I want to know is, is there a way to do it just using one rule or will I have to do it for every url?

 

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other_henry

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• Jun 25, 2011

• #4

blacktrilby said:

I want to move a site from joomla to wordpress.

All the current urls have underscores in them

Is the a way to do a permanent redirect for all urls

eg. mysite.com/this_is_a_page

to

mysite.com/this-is-a-page

or would I have to redirect all pages seperately?

Thanks

BT

Click to expand...

You need to use this code and repeat it for the max number of _ possible, add another pattern & replacement.

assuming php pages:

Code:

rewriteRule ^([^_]*)_([^_]*)\.php$ mysite.com/$1-$2.php [R=301,L]
rewriteRule ^([^_]*)_([^_]*)_([^_]*)\.php$ mysite.com/$1-$2-$3.php [R=301,L]
etc....

(I can't post the URLs correctly, add http in front of the domain)

 

Last edited: Jun 25, 2011

blacktrilby

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Thank you so much. I will give it a go