.htaccess redirect help

[kitdang]

All,

Need a little help with the conditional redirect.

My production site format is as follow

category page - http://www.domain.com/logical_folder/category_code.html
product page - http://www.domain.com/logical_folder/product_code/product_name.html
regular page - http://www.domain.com/logical_folder/page_code.html

My dev site will have this new format which is the same as production except its no longer have the 'logical_folder'. I am using toolkit for the short link.

category page - http://www.domain.com/category_code.html
product page - http://www.domain.com/product_code/product_name.html
regular page - http://www.domain.com/page_code.html

How do I go about redirect the pages to support the dev site when I switch the dev site live?

Thanks in advance

[ILoveHostasaurus]

Re: .htaccess redirect help

I think you'd just need:

# Grab product URL's
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/logical_folder/([^/]+)/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/%1/%2 [R=301,L]
# Everything else
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/logical_folder/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/%1 [R=301,L]

[kitdang]

Re: .htaccess redirect help

Thanks David. Will those goes at the top above the product and category redirect? Here is what I have in the file. I also notice on all the pages (except for the homepage), the canonical url in the header shows two forward slash after the domain name "http://dev.domain.com//category.html". Not sure if it's caused by the redirect or did I configured it incorrectly in the seo section.

### Begin - Inserted by Miva Merchant


DirectoryIndex /mm5/merchant.mvc


RewriteEngine On


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






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




#Category/Page Rewrite#
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+).html$ /mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=TKSL&Code=$1 [L,NC,QSA]


#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s#
#RewriteRule ^([^/]+)-p-([^/.]+).html$ /mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=TKSL&Product_Code=$1&Category_ Code=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]#


#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s#
#RewriteRule ^([^/.]+).html$ /mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=TKSL&Code=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]#




### End - Inserted by Miva Merchant

[kitdang]

Re: .htaccess redirect help

I think you'd just need:

# Grab product URL's
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/logical_folder/([^/]+)/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/%1/%2 [R=301,L]
# Everything else
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/logical_folder/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/%1 [R=301,L]

The above condition doesn't work. Any suggestion?

[ILoveHostasaurus]

Re: .htaccess redirect help

That code is correct; your issue was not related. Rafael should be replying shortly.

[kitdang]

Re: .htaccess redirect help

Thanks David. Appreciate the help

[kitdang]

Re: .htaccess redirect help

One more question. For those rewrite condition, are they 301 to the new page? Would it impact my google ranking?

[ILoveHostasaurus]

Re: .htaccess redirect help

The R=301 in the RewriteRule flags tells it to use a 301.

[kitdang]

Re: .htaccess redirect help

Hi David,

Would I still be able to use TKSL page to redirect products when they are discontinue or is TKSL no longer working? I see that the last redirect was comment out and it's part of TKSL. Thanks in advance

[ILoveHostasaurus]

Re: .htaccess redirect help

You can't redirect one thing to two different destinations. You have two different blocks of code that were both redirecting /<something>.html to a different destination; only the first one would do anything so the second one was commented. I do not know anything about TKSL specifically.