301 Redirect to a Renamed Category

[allenfreeman]

In MM9, I had a category called CA-ADA-Restrooms. I just renamed that category to CA-ADA because we added more California ADA signs that were not for restrooms to it.

What is the best way to create a 301 redirect from the old name of the category to the new name of the category to catch any of the stray links that may be floating around the interwebs?

Thx...

[Pamela Hazelton]

Update the .htaccess file with the 301.

[allenfreeman]

I tried that with with a standard redirect call in htaccess, but I think Miva's URI 'auto-code' within appends the link and breaks it. I placed:

redirect 301 /category/CA-ADA-Restroom.html http://adasignfactory.com/category/CA-ADA.html

before the Miva auto-code in htaccess, but it 404s the redirect because the auto-code changes the link to:

http://adasignfactory.com/category/CA-ADA.html?Screen=CTGY&Category_code=CA-ADA-Restroom

which doesn't exist.


I also tried to create a URI redirect in the Miva admin, but I couldn't get that to work either...

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Do you have [L] after the first redirect? That tells the server that if it finds a match, stop further processing of the htaccess file.

[allenfreeman]

Thx Bruce I did not have the [L] after the redirect, but the result was the same when I added it: a 404 'Page 'CTGY,CTGY' no longer exists' generated by a revised URL of

http://adasignfactory.com/category/CA-ADA.html?Screen=CTGY&Category_code=CA-ADA-Restroom

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

post the actual lines of the htaccess file. i suspect you've got something wrong.

[allenfreeman]

Good idea. Thx. Here is the entire htaccess file:

# -FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

redirect 301 /Distributors http://adasignfactory.com/DIST.html
redirect 301 /distributors http://adasignfactory.com/DIST.html
redirect 301 /DISTRIBUTORS http://adasignfactory.com/DIST.html
redirect 301 /distributors.html http://adasignfactory.com/DIST.html
redirect 301 /Distributors.html http://adasignfactory.com/DIST.html
redirect 301 /category/CA-ADA-Restroom.html http://adasignfactory.com/category/CA-ADA.html[L]

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName adasignfactory.com
AuthUserFile /home/adasg/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/adasg/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp


### Begin - Inserted by Miva Merchant

DirectoryIndex /mm5/merchant.mvc

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^mm5/admin.mvc? - [QSA,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteRule ^sign/([^/.]+).html$ /mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_code=$1 [QSA,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteRule ^category/([^/.]+).html$ /mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_code=$1 [QSA,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteRule ^sign/([^/]+)/([^/.]+).html$ /mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Category_code=$1&Product_code=$2 [QSA,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+).html$ /mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=$1 [QSA,L]

### End - Inserted by Miva Merchant




<ifModule mod_headers.c>
    Header set Connection keep-alive
</ifModule>

Header unset Pragma
FileETag None
Header unset ETag

<FilesMatch "\.(ico|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf|pdf|flv|mp3)$">
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
 ExpiresActive on
 ExpiresDefault "access plus 14 days"
 Header set Cache-Control "public"
</IfModule>
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.(html|htm|xml|txt|xsl)$">
 Header set Cache-Control "max-age=7200, must-revalidate"
</FilesMatch>


<IfModule mod_mime.c>
 AddType application/x-javascript .js
 AddType text/css .css
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
 AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css application/x-javascript text/x-component text/html text/richtext image/svg+xml text/plain text/xsd text/xsl text/xml image/x-icon application/javascript
 <IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
  BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
  BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
  BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
 </IfModule>
 <IfModule mod_headers.c>
  Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
 </IfModule>
</IfModule>

# compress text, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and XML
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript

# remove browser bugs
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
Header append Vary User-Agent

[Dan - Glendale Designs]

Add a question mark to the end of that redirect.

 
 redirect 301 /category/CA-ADA-Restroom.html http://adasignfactory.com/category/CA-ADA.html?

[allenfreeman]

Thanks Dan, that did the trick!

What does the ? mean to that line to make it work?

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

the end. yea, you can't use the [L] switch on a Redirect command, that's for rewrite. you can also use:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteRule ^category/CA-ADA-Restroom.html$ /mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_code=CA-ADA [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^category/([^/.]+).html$ /mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_code=$1 [QSA,L]

[allenfreeman]

Thanks Bruce. Anyone else looking to solve this now has the full details. The end! ? lol