301 redirect help please... .htaccess

Howitzer · 09-07-2009 12:50pm #1

Hi,

i want to do a simple 301 redirect (page has permanently moved) within .htaccess

The model I found is:

redirect 301 about/contact-us http://www.mysite.com/about/contact-mycompany

However - I have other sites at this level and can't redirect all about/contact-us to this new page.

i need the equivalent of:
code:
redirect 301 http://www.mysite.com/about/contact-us http://www.mysite.com/about/contact-mycompany

to be clear on which domain/site to act on.
(This code doesn't work...)
So it's full path to full path and not relative to full path as per first example.

I can't for the life of me find a solution via google etc...

Anyone done this before? All help appreciated!

louie · 09-07-2009 5:54pm

if you can't get it to work using the .htaccess try php
[php]
//array of pages allowed - don't forget to include the redirection page
//in this case redirect.html
$allow_url = array("/page1.html", "/page2.html","/redirect.html");
$get_uri = $_SERVER;
//print_r($allow_url);
if(!in_array($get_uri,$allow_url)){
header("Location: yourpage-here.html", true, 301);//301=permanent - 302=temporary
exit();
}
[/php]

Scotty # · 09-07-2009 7:01pm

I presume you are using Apache? If so this should work...

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.[COLOR=Red]newdomainhere.com[/COLOR]/$1 [R=301,L]

Scotty # · 09-07-2009 7:08pm

Oops you're only doing one page....

However - I have other sites at this level and can't redirect all about/contact-us to this new page.

Can't you place the .htaccess in the directory of the contact_us you DO want to redirect?

Howitzer · 10-07-2009 2:12pm

cheers for the replies.

There is no 'directory' or 'file' to place in. Using code igniter.

I could put something in php somewhere.

Would prefer to get the htaccess version.

Shame it just won't play ball! Ah well - no panic. cheers for the help.

301 redirect help please... .htaccess

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