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htaccess - how to lose the old .html suffix for new site - thedoglett - 2012-08-17
Just wondering if any of you chaps could help out with a htaccess problem I'm having? I'm not too hot on htaccess rules so any help would be appreciated.
I'm moving a customer from a static html site over to Get Simple and I want to make sure that the changeover doesn't affect his seo rankings which are pretty darn good.
At the moment a link to a page on his site looks like this:
Code:
www.his-site.com/a-page-title-here.htmlGet Simple now displays links like this (which is exactly what I want):
Code:
www.his-site.com/a-page-title-hereI have the default htaccess file which is as follows:
Code:
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
Options -Indexes
# blocks direct access to the XML files - they hold all the data!
<Files ~ "\.xml$">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
Satisfy All
</Files>
<Files sitemap.xml>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Satisfy All
</Files>
RewriteEngine on
# Usually it RewriteBase is just '/', but
# replace it with your subdirectory path
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule /?([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/?$ index.php?id=$1 [QSA,L]What would I need to add/change so that anyone who clicks on an old link from a search engine (which has .html at the end of it) will be taken to the dynamic non-.html version without throwing up an error 404 page?
I don't want to change all the pages on the site to include the .html suffix via htaccess and the custom slug option, just redirect any requests for a page ending with .html to the non-.html page.
Hope that makes sense - any help would be appreciated as htaccess always blows my mind!
htaccess - how to lose the old .html suffix for new site - Connie - 2012-08-17
no problem
1) admin / settings:
change
Code:
%parent%/%slug%/Code:
%parent%/%slug%.html/2) edit .htaccess:
change
Code:
RewriteRule /?([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/?$ index.php?id=$1 [QSA,L]Code:
RewriteRule /?([A-Za-z0-9_-]+).html?$ index.php?id=$1 [QSA,L]3) delete all caches ;=)
should work
htaccess - how to lose the old .html suffix for new site - thedoglett - 2012-08-17
Thanks for the quick reply Connie! I think the above is for adding a .html suffix to all the pages though.
What I'm trying to do is get any old links from search engines which point to a .html page to automatically display the page without the .html suffix.
An example: at the moment the client has a page called "about-us.html" but the Get Simple site displays this page as "about-us". This means that anyone going to the .html page gets a 404 error.
I don't really want to add the .html suffix to all of his existing pages, just put in a rule which says "you're looking for a .html page, I'll show you a page with the same url just without the .html bit".
Is this possible?
htaccess - how to lose the old .html suffix for new site - Connie - 2012-08-17
if you do not want to continue with .html-suffixes, you have to write a REDIRECT-Rule
you can generate this rule online and add it to your .htaccess
see here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1472982/htaccess-redirect-all-html-files
Code:
RewriteRule (.+)\.html$ /$1/ [L,R]a simple google finds nearly everything ;=)
htaccess - how to lose the old .html suffix for new site - thedoglett - 2012-08-17
Connie Wrote:a simple google finds nearly everything ;=)
It sure does - but you need to understand how to use it first!
Still trying though.
htaccess - how to lose the old .html suffix for new site - thedoglett - 2012-08-17
Solved.
Code:
RewriteRule (.+)\.html$ http://www.website-address-goes-here.com/$1/ [R=301,NC]This goes before the last rule in the htaccess file:
Code:
RewriteRule /?([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/?$ index.php?id=$1 [QSA,L]Thanks for the pointers folks.
htaccess - how to lose the old .html suffix for new site - Connie - 2012-08-18
I am glad it works for you
Cheers, Connie