I already have modrewrite on my Apache server and my URLs are clean already - www.example.com/this-is-my-url
I now need to 301 redirect all old URLs to new URLs after rebuilding a site and changing these but it simply won’t work! These have already been rewritten so this makes the process even more difficult I think?, there seems to be not a shred of information on the internet on how to do this. For example, I want to redirect:
www.example.com/this-clean-url to this:
www.example.com/this-new-clean-url
It won’t work in the conventional way, as the one to be redirected already has stuff applied to it to rewrite, I think..
Has anyone out there ever actually done this and can help by any chance?
Thanks in advance for any pointers.
Here’s my .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
# Fix Apache internal dummy connections from breaking [(site_url)] cache
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*internal\ dummy\ connection.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
# The Friendly URLs part
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
