I have a video website that uses phpmotion and I had a friendly url mod installed. The support for the script is not brilliant and it seems only a couple of people can work with the script. The site is on a dedicated server, but I am in the process of uploading all the videos onto youtube, where I will then get the script to embed the videos back on the site.

I am replacing the script with custom made pages and each page will have the relevent youtube video embedded into it.

Here is one of the url's now from the site- http://www.ultimatehandyman.org/videos/ ... opper-pipe

Because there are lots of backlinks linking to some of the pages I thought I could do a 301 redirect through .htaccess but I just tried it and it did not work.

The new page will look like this- http://www.ultimatehandyman.org/compres ... ttings.php (not all links are working yet)

So I need to redirect the old url to the new url.

If anyone can please advise I would appreciate it?

Thanks

chez

So you'll need a full list of all changes since names did not stayed the same compression-fittings-on-copper-pipe vs compression_fittings.php.

You could use something like :

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<?php
/**
*
* @package Ultimate SEO URL phpBB SEO
*
*/
// Some config
$root_url = 'http://www.example.com/';

$phpbb_root_path = './';
$phpEx = substr(strrchr(__FILE__, '.'), 1);

$old_uri = !empty($_GET['old_uri']) ? preg_replace('`[^a-z0-9_-]+`i', '', trim($_GET[old_uri'])) : 0;
$url = '';
if ($old_uri) {
   $redirect_map = array(
      //'old_uri' => 'new_uri',
      'compression-fittings-on-copper-pipe' => 'compression_fittings.php',
   );
   if (isset($redirect_map[$old_uri])) {
      $url = $redirect_map[$old_uri];
   }
}
// Will redirect to domain index in case no url was built
$url = $root_url . $url;
header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently', false, 301);
header('Location: ' . $url);
exit();
?>

Put this in a file named redirect.php in your domain's root, as you can see, you'll need to enter the full redirect map without taking care of paths :

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   $redirect_map = array(
      //'old_uri' => 'new_uri',
      'compression-fittings-on-copper-pipe' => 'compression_fittings.php',
   );

and to set your root url :

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$root_url = 'http://www.example.com/';

Then, you'll need a rewriterule in your root .htaccess to address old url to that script :

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RewriteRule ^videos/[0-9]+/([a-z-0-9_-]+)$ /redirect.php?old_uri=$1 [QSA,L,NC]

And you'll be done

Thanks DCZ

I'll try this in the next few days.

I'll probably be back soon as I am completely clueless about .htaccess etc.

Thanks very much for your help!

I tried this a couple of days back and I could not get it to work

At first I added the additional code to the existing .htaccess file and I also added the file called redirect.php and I changed the url root. I could not get it to work, so I deleted the existing .htaccess file and just used the code that you suggested and that did not work.

I have probably done something wrong as I don't have a clue when it comes to .htaccess or redirects.

Any advice would be welcome.

Thanks

chez

Sorry for delay.

Is there an .htaccess in videos/ ?

If so, you need to add :

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RewriteRule ^[0-9]+/([a-z-0-9_\.-]+)$ redirect.php?old_uri=$1 [QSA,L,NC]

in it, and put redirect.php in videos/ too.

Otherwise, try some slash combos, such as :

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RewriteRule ^videos/[0-9]+/([a-z-0-9_\.-]+)$ redirect.php?old_uri=$1 [QSA,L,NC]

and make sure you started mod_rewrite before that in your .htaccess and that you have a proper RewriteBase.

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thanks for the advice, i was having similar issues.

thanks

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