I agree that the old urls wont be listed in the SE's any longer, but there are still hundreds of links out there that have deep links pointing to my old site still. Surely the SE's still follow those links to my site and find 404's and. This being the case, those old links can still be utilised sure...

theres nothing similar about the page names between old and new. I used to have a xoops portal running on there with various info modules but shut it down a while ago now, But I have just opened up an e-commerce store on the same url but based on the same topic/theme. It just seemed a shame to me th...

Ah right I see what you mean.

Maybe its best to keep checking my logs on my site and find out which 404 errors are being generated. then do a rewrite for those urls only. As those will be the ones that have inbound links.

PostPosted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:10 pm Post subject: Re: rewrite an entire directory to a single filename And welcome Very Happy How about : Code: RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^old/$ /browse.php [R=301,L] And please note that it's not the best thing to http 301 redirect too many urls to...

I have changed my site around and would like to put in my htaccess something that will rewrite all my old files in a particular directory i.e root/old/ and point them to browse.php in the root so that all inbound links to my site will be retained.

Any help would be much appreciated. thanks