This is kind of a general question, but I haven't found an answer yet:
I'going to move my WP blog and ZP installation to a new domain, and I'm at the point of adding a 301 redirect on my old domain.
I found this:
`
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*)
http://www.new-domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
`
which seems fine for an entire 'copy' of the old site. But I made some modifications:
/folderA/ becomes /folderB/ (the zenphoto installation)
/archives/ becomes /wp-content/uploads/ (all the links within wp-posts to images etc.)
and all the rest stays the same.
So I need three redirections, but I don't know how and in what order.
Zenphoto
Comments
For SEO reasons you should also take care of with and without www ("Duplicate content").
`
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
`
This redirects calls to domain.com to www.domain.com so it is clear both have the same content.
So would this be ok?
`Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^spoenk\.nl$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.jacktummers.nl/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^archives/(.*) http://www.jacktummers.nl/wp-content/uploads/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^beeldend/(.*) http://www.jacktummers.nl/collectie/$1 [R=301,L]`
where
www.spoenk.nl is the old domain, www.jacktummers.nl the new one.
archives/ will be wp-content/uploads/
beeldend/ will be collectie/ (this is the ZP installation)
Actually just this is needed for the url change:
`RewriteRule ^category/(.*)?/$ news/category/$1 [L,R=301]`
That's an example from our own htaccess file to redirect the outdated Wordpress links.
I am not an real htaccess expert though but that works for us.
`Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^spoenk\.nl$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.jacktummers.nl/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^archives/(.*) wp-content/uploads/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^beeldend/(.*) collectie/$1 [R=301,L]`
If I would also want to add a redirect to a 404 page for visitors, would that line of code have to be BEFORE or AFTER these rewrite rules. And do I have to add RewriteEngine off somewhere?
No, RewriteEngine OFF is not need as you want to keep it on, don't you?
`ErrorDocument 404 /404.html
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^spoenk\.nl$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.jacktummers.nl/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^archives/(.*)?/$ wp-content/uploads/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^beeldend/(.*)?/$ collectie/$1 [R=301,L]`