.htaccess Redirect?

Mr. G · 07-07-2014 11:36am #1

Say I develop a WordPress site and at the moment there is a redirect from domain.com/ to domain.com/site. I want to move the site to the root directory /. This isn't a problem.

However, a lot of pages would have been linked directly to posts which if would show a 404 error.

How to a redirect all pages/links on /site to / so if I was to browse to /site/about it would redirect to /about, and if I was to browse to /site/projects it would redirect to /projects, without having to list them manually?

I could list them manually but I seem to remember some method of doing the above without manually listing them?

Thanks in advance

mneylon · 07-07-2014 1:29pm

Have a look at: http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/redirection/

daymobrew · 08-07-2014 7:19am

Or you could change the links via WP Migrate DB. It involves exporting a .sql file with the corrected site data and then importing it, overwriting the existing database. Do backups before importing.

If the development site is at domain.com/site there should not be incoming links (but a .htaccess could handle that).

maccored · 08-07-2014 1:54pm

or change the main site url in the database from domain.com/ to domain.com/site

ThrowinShapes · 08-07-2014 2:56pm

You could have a look at:
coolestguidesontheplanet.com/redirecting-a-web-folder-directory-to-another-in-htaccess/

What you're looking for is this:
RewriteRule ^subdirectory/(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,NC,L]

Just replace subdirectory with the subdirectory name of the old site.

Mr. G · 14-07-2014 12:18pm

ThrowinShapes wrote: »

You could have a look at:
coolestguidesontheplanet.com/redirecting-a-web-folder-directory-to-another-in-htaccess/

What you're looking for is this:
RewriteRule ^subdirectory/(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,NC,L]

Just replace subdirectory with the subdirectory name of the old site.

That's what I was trying to find. Thanks!

.htaccess Redirect?

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