Redirects And Changing Site Url

[ramone_kalsaw]

I'm using Expression Engine and I redesigned my site which included changing the site url from www.biom.net/dojo.php to www.biom.net/index.php.

 

When I look at AWStats I'm seeing that I'm still getting hits to pages like /dojo.php/photoblog/rss_2.0/ and /index.php/photoblog/rss_2.0/. Does this mean that someone had either bookmarked the old .../dojo.php page, or opened it before I made the conversion to .../index.php?

 

And, do I need to do something like a 'redirect' to point users from old bookmarked pages to the new urls?

 

I've never done this type of conversion before and I'm concerned about the confusion it may cause my existing readers.

 

Thanks for your insights!

[TCH-JimE]

Hello,

 

If you go to www.biom.net/dojo.php do you get redirected??

 

If not, you can set up a redirect in cpanel to the new address which will help solve your problems

 

JimE

[ramone_kalsaw]

Hello,

 

If you go to www.biom.net/dojo.php do you get redirected??

 

If not, you can set up a redirect in cpanel to the new address which will help solve your problems

 

JimE

Thanks, Jim. This worked for the index page redirect, but not for the subsidiary pages like /dojo.php/photoblog to /index.php/photoblog. Do I have to do a redirect for everypage under the /dojo.php url to get them to point to their updated /index.php counterpart? (I have quite a few pages to redirect if that's the case

 

Thanks for the help!

[ramone_kalsaw]

Thanks, Jim. This worked for the index page redirect, but not for the subsidiary pages like /dojo.php/photoblog to /index.php/photoblog. Do I have to do a redirect for everypage under the /dojo.php url to get them to point to their updated /index.php counterpart? (I have quite a few pages to redirect if that's the case

 

Thanks for the help!

I added the following to my .htaccess file to get a global redirect from .../dojo.php to .../index.php but the server is only redirecting the old index page -- dojo.php -- and not any of the subpages -- dojo.php/page/.

 

The following code is all I have on the .htaccess file. Is there some modification I need to make?

 

Thanks!

 

 

>Redirect 301 /dojo.php http://www.biom.net/

 

 

Thanks!

[TCH-Bruce]

Check out the Rewrite Cheat Sheet.

[TCH-JimE]

Hello,

 

Sorry I haven't had time to look this one up much, but try searching google for "RedirectMatch" and try this:

 

>RedirectMatch 301 /dojo.php(.*) http://www.biom.net/

 

JimE