Redirection (301) - Htaccess Tutorial

I thought, this would help some people, atleast some who doesnt Google much!


How to Save an Htaccess file
1.Open Notepad
2.Type in the Htaccess commands
3. File > Save
4.remove .txt and type .htaccess
5. From File type, select All Files.
6. Save
7. Done!


Q: I see my site having 100 backlinks with WWW and 10 Without WWW
A : 301 Redirect WWW to Non WWW or Vice Versa!


WWW to Non WWW

#Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^sitenamehere.com
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.sitenamehere.com/$1 [R=301,L]


Non WWW to WWW

#Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^http://www.sitenamehere.com
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://sitenamehere.com/$1 [R=301,L]


Q: I bought an SSL! And I want to force my url to be https://
A: Can be done with out without WWW. (codes below)

Non WWW to WWW with Https

#Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^sitenamehere.com
RewriteRule ^(.*) https://www.sitenamehere.com/$1 [R=301,L]

WWW to Non WWW with Https

#Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^http://www.sitenamehere.com
RewriteRule ^(.*) https://sitenamehere.com/$1 [R=301,L]


Q : I dont want my site to come with .html, .php extensions
A: Can easily be hidden!


Hiding Page Extentions

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php

Replace .php with .html .txt or whatever you need to hide!


Q: Google deindexed my site. I need all the link juice to my new site. And I dont want to break the old urls.

A: 301 olddomain.com/page to newdomain.com/page . Kick Googles Butt using this htaccess mod!


Domain.com/page to newdomain.com/page

#Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourolddomain.com$[OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourolddomain.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yournewdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]


Am not a pro in htaccess, but if you have some problems with this, Ask loud!


~ExP~

I am trying to make a redirect to entire site but it doesn't work. I am using this code - redirect 301 / http://www.mynewdomain.com/.
The host doesn't support PHP/CGI/ASP/FPext scripts.
Could this be the reason?

thanks for the tut

good share buddy, was actually looking for this today

emil9216 said:

I am trying to make a redirect to entire site but it doesn't work. I am using this code - redirect 301 / http://www.mynewdomain.com/.
The host doesn't support PHP/CGI/ASP/FPext scripts.
Could this be the reason?

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All hosts does follow htaccess rules. Just follow what the code above, and you will be able to get it working!

andreyg13 said:

good share buddy, was actually looking for this today

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~ExP~

Good tutorial, very usefull.

Check your non-www version if it is really returning a 301.

Check Server Headers Tool - HTTP Status Codes Checker

this screen shot for my site
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VpEYdp5E1lM/TRgnGxjrrZI/AAAAAAAAAEM/9-A2_3VSsEY/s1600/Image+2.png

i post this here becoz this will help you like me if you want to know non-www version really returning a 301.

i recently changed the .htaccess file on a Joomla shopping cart site and now my site is being indexed with the "https" how do i get rid of this??? please help ... Thanks in advance

I did mine though my cpanel (change of domain) & this is the .htaccess it produced:

Is this acceptable for changing domain & retaining link juice?

What is the difference between [r=301] & [r=301,L] ? I also seen a few other "extensions"

Thanks

thanks for sharing

I have to change my subfolders/subdirectories from underscores to dashes. Have to do this across like 6 subfolders/subdirectories.

So
http://www.thedomainname.com/this_folder/
becomes
http://www.thedomainname.com/this-folder/

Like I said, there are several subdirectories like this, so if there was a single one line rewrite rule for this - that would be great?

Oh, and I failed to mention, I only want the rule to affect the subdirectory - not any further subdirectories of file names.

gettinthere said:

I did mine though my cpanel (change of domain) & this is the .htaccess it produced:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://www.mynewsite.com [R=301]

Is this acceptable for changing domain & retaining link juice?

What is the difference between [r=301] & [r=301,L] ? I also seen a few other "extensions"

Thanks

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"L" stands for "last rule" - it orders apache to stop rewriting after the line ending with "L" has been processed.

Hey, I have been trying to do some 301 redirects because I noticed that I have 98 "404 Not Found " for my main site in G webmasters tool. So I tried the code below on 1 of my html sites and it worked fine but when I tried it on my wordpress(main site) all my post are getting "Not Found" error. I know that there are wp plugins to do this that works perfect, but I dont want to use a plugin because I prefer to do manually. Can you please tell me what the correct 301 redirect code for wordpress is?

301 CODE I tried in .htaccess

Redirect 301 /page http://www.mysite.com/newpage/

This is the genertated .htaccess that I found in my ftp currently:

RewriteEngine on

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Anyone with experience please any suggestions to my post above.