Just a little help with a redirect issue please

Hello

I have a HTML site that has a canonical URL problem. My index page is fine.

But, a couple of my inner pages have some bad URL's where I have used a capital letter in the URL.

If I type in the inner page URL without the caps, I get a page not found error. I might have also built a lot of backlinks to the wrong url, with the capital letter on.

Can you please give me some direction on how I can fix it.

P.S. - I did a rel canonical insert. Will that be enough to fix the issue? The page is not redirecting with the rel canonical fix though.

Thanks
Ramsweb

You can re create the page with proper url. Do a 301 redirect to the new page and what ever BL you have built to the incorrect url will pass over to the new url. rel canonical won't re direct.

Can anybody tell me how to do 301 redirects for individual pages. I don't want to redirect the index or other pages on this website. Just the 3 inner URL's that have this problem

So you have a page with unwanted URL, its very simple to redirect the page to some other URL using 301 redirect.

That won't harm your inner page in any way.
I believe, you don't need a canonical tag here... Because, ultimately, its about the user... A user should find this inner page easily.

Hey Ramsweb you can either do a 301 for your pages by cpanel if you have this option with your hosting or via htaccess if just ftp. Simple to do from cpanel there is a redirect option in the menu options. If you go ftp route and edit htaccess just download and backup. Open it up and add this below what ever is in there for each url you want to redirect


Do not to add "hxxp://www" to the first part of the redirected url just put the path from the top level of your site to the page. Also ensure that you leave a single space between redirect 301 and /old/old.htm and same between new urls

Fixed this. Hostgator cpanel has a super easy option to do a 301, at domain level and for individual urls as well. No need to write complicated htaaccess files or any other code. Just FYI for newbies who might have this problem.

Ramsweb said:

Hello

I have a HTML site that has a canonical URL problem. My index page is fine.

But, a couple of my inner pages have some bad URL's where I have used a capital letter in the URL.

If I type in the inner page URL without the caps, I get a page not found error. I might have also built a lot of backlinks to the wrong url, with the capital letter on.

Can you please give me some direction on how I can fix it.

P.S. - I did a rel canonical insert. Will that be enough to fix the issue? The page is not redirecting with the rel canonical fix though.

Thanks
Ramsweb

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You can fixed it using 301 redirect.

*To redirect ALL files on your domain use this in your
.htaccess file if you are on a unix web server:

redirectMatch 301 ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com
redirectMatch permanent ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com

You can also use one of these in your .htaccess file:

redirect 301 /index.html http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html
redirect permanent /index.html http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html
redirectpermanent /index.html http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html

This will redirect "index.html" to another domain using a
301-Moved permanently redirect.

*If you need to redirect http://mysite.com to
http://www.mysite.com and you've got mod_rewrite enabled on
your server you can put this in your .htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]

*If you want to redirect your .htm pages to .php pages
andd you've got mod_rewrite enabled on your server you can
put this in your .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule (.*).htm$ /$1.php

*If you wish to redirect your .html or .htm pages to
.shtml pages because you are using Server Side Includes
(SSI) add this code to your .htaccess file:

AddType text/html .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml .html .htm
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
DirectoryIndex index.shtml index.html


Hope this will help.