.aspx & .htaccess redirect issues

Hi All,

I know there has been many discussions on 301's etc, but we are at a loss with a solution for an issue we have.

We moved an old site hosted on windows (.aspx) to a new PHP server.

In a nutshell we want to redirect the old .aspx urls to the new ones.

There are 2 things we need to do:

1. Redirect old .aspx urls to folders (e.g) http://www.mysite/flowers/roses/

2. Redirect old .aspx urls to new .html urls (e.g) http://www.mysite/flowers.html

Our developers have tried pretty much everything under the sun to get this working, they know about the various issues with a conflict between mod_rewrite and mod_alias but they cannot get anything to work.

They are also aware it could be an issue with friendly url's.

A typical redirect is:

#Redirect 301 http://mysite.co.uk/folder/my-url.aspx http://www.mysite.co.uk/folder/

or

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mysite.co.uk/folder/my-url\.aspx
#RewriteRule (.*) www.mysite/folder/$1 [R=301,L]


If anyone has any ideas or suggestions or needs any other config files from us so we can gain our sanity back it would be much appreciated

Thanks
H

You could just change the default suffixes to .aspx - MODx really doesn't care what they are.

Hi thanks for replying, we tried changing the suffixes in the database but still no joy :-(

You need to change them in System -> Content Types for regular HTML documents, and System Settings, the setting for container_suffix. For this to work, you'll also need to turn off use_alias_path in System Settings. [ed. note: sottwell last edited this post 14 years ago.]

You could also create a plugin to perform custom page-not-found processing, using the OnPageNotFound event.