301 Redirect - Technical Question
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I have recently updated a site and for the url's that had changed or were not transferring I set up 301 redirects in the htaccess file as follows
This one works - Redirect 301 /industry-sectors http://www.tornadowire.co.uk/fencing
But this one doesn't - Redirect 301 /industry-sectors/equine http://www.tornadowire.co.uk/fencing/application/equestrian/
What it does is change the url to this instead http://www.tornadowire.co.uk/fencing/equine ..... which returns a 404 page not found error
The server is nginx based server and we have moved from a joomal platform to a wordpress platform
I would be grateful for any ideas
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Hi, it's possible that the 301 redirect that you think is handling this URL is not that redirect. It may be worth checking your .htaccess file to see if this URL path /industry-sectors/equine is being managed by another redirect.
Check your .htaccess file for anything that might be overriding your URL path and taking it to the wrong URL.
Peter
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