Redirect 301 not working properly.

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Amrit Reply #1, 16 years, 2 months ago

I have moved from a static site to a MODx installation, but the site had been up for many years, so a lot of links on the net still points to old documents which no longer exists.

So I tried with Redirect 301, like this:

redirect 301 /english.asp http://www.mysite.se/english.php

but this doesn’t work, since it only produces a link like this:

www.mysite.se/english.php?q=english.asp

I guess it has something to do with this line:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

but I can’t delete it since it is needed for Friendly URLs part.

How can I get around this problem?!?

Cheers
Amrit

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bunk58 Reply #2, 16 years, 2 months ago

Maybe try this rule

RewriteRule ^/english.asp$ english.php [NC,R=301]

Before this part

# For Friendly URLs
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

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Amrit Reply #3, 16 years, 2 months ago

Good idea, but it doesn’t work at all. Now nothing happens, and no redirect occurs.
Also tried below the part you suggested and it gave the same result.

Any other ideas?

Cheers
Amrit

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MrFussyfont Reply #4, 16 years ago

Bumping this topic, since I would also like to know how to do this...

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Lucas Reply #5, 16 years ago

I didn’t notice your post before but I’ve just solved a similar problem on my own site:

Try adding this:

RewriteRule ^english.asp$ http://www.mysite.se/english.php [R=301,L]

Under this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mysite\.se [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mysite.se/$1 [R=301,L]