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  • shawnbeaird
    shawnbeaird last edited by Jan 7, 2017, 12:02 AM

    I just relaunched my website and changed a permalink structure for several pages where only a subdirectory name changed.

    What 301 Redirect code do I use to redirect the following? I have dozens of these where I need to change just the directory name from "urban-living" to "urban", and want it to catch the following all in one redirect command.

    Here is an example of the structure that needs to change.

    Old 
    domain.com/urban-living (single page w/ content)
    domain.com/urban-living/tempe (single page w/ content)
    domain.com/urban-living/tempe/the-vale (single page w/ content)

    New 
    domain.com/urban 
    domain.com/urban/tempe 
    domain.com/urban/tempe/the-vale

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    • FrankViolette
      FrankViolette @shawnbeaird last edited by Jan 7, 2017, 3:01 PM Jan 7, 2017, 3:01 PM

      Glad it works!

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      • shawnbeaird
        shawnbeaird last edited by Jan 7, 2017, 3:00 PM Jan 7, 2017, 3:00 PM

        Got it. That works. I was using Yoast Premium Redirect tools.

        RewriteRule ^(.)urban-living(.)$ yoursite.com/$1urban$2 [R=301,L]   the "yoursite.com/" wasn't necessary.

        This did the trick. RewriteRule ^(.)urban-living(.)$ /$1urban$2 [R=301,L]

        Thanks!

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        • FrankViolette
          FrankViolette @shawnbeaird last edited by Jan 7, 2017, 2:59 PM Jan 7, 2017, 1:33 PM

          Yeah, that would be a lot of lines to add manuall., I would try the htaccess Rewrite function.

          <ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
          RewriteBase /

          RewriteRule ^(.)urban-living(.)$ yoursite.com/$1urban$2 [R=301,L]</ifmodule>

          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

          RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]

          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.yoursite.com$ [NC]
          RewriteRule ^(.*)$ yoursite.com//$1 [L,R=301]

          I'm not an htaccess expert, so I'm not 100% sure that it will work, if not you can check out this stack overflow thread for an explanation of the code used above.

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          • shawnbeaird
            shawnbeaird last edited by Jan 7, 2017, 1:21 PM Jan 7, 2017, 1:21 PM

            I have more than a dozen... dozenS as in plural.  There are 80 pages with this and want to use a single command to capture all of them, not do them individually.

            Is there a way to to that?

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            • FrankViolette
              FrankViolette last edited by Jan 7, 2017, 3:48 AM Jan 7, 2017, 3:48 AM

              Since you only have a dozen of URLs you could just do a simple 301 redirect in your .htaccess file or you can get a little more technical and do a RewriteRule that would 301 "urban-living" to "urban'

              .htaccess 301 Redirect

              Redirect 301/urban-living /urban 
              Redirect 301/urban-living/tempe /urban/tempe
              Redirect 301/urban-living/tempe/the-vale /urban/tempe/the-vale

              Hope this helps, if not, let me know if you have any questions!

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