htaccess question

  • richiedude

    (@richiedude)


    14 years, 4 months ago

    i currently have my htaccess file working so i get permalinks like this:

    /blog/category/year/post-title

    however i became aware using category as first portion of permalink is not recommended due to performance issues so i want to change permalinks to be:

    /blog/year/category/post-title

    now i know all i need to do is change the permalinks to do so . . . however – my question is how do i modify the htaccess to not break incoming links so that

    /blog/category/year/post-title
    get a 301 redirect to
    /blog/year/category/post-title

    ????

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  • Robert Chapin

    (@miqrogroove)

    14 years, 4 months ago

    Post the current file so we can see what else is going on there.

    It will look something like

    RewriteRule ^blog/([^/]+)/(\d{4})/(.+)$ http://mysite.com/blog/$2/$1/$3 [R=permanent,L]

    Shane G.

    (@shane-g-1)

    14 years, 4 months ago

    Hi,

    Set your desired permalink and add this code in htaccess:

    # BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

    Thanks,

    Shane G.

    fireandsalt

    (@fireandsalt)

    14 years, 4 months ago

    Ditto what Shane G said…

    Thread Starter richiedude

    (@richiedude)

    14 years, 4 months ago

    tried it shane & that does’t work

    what happens is all old incoming links to

    /blog/category/year/post-title

    forward to:

    /blog/

    and all posts – if you click on them, do not go to single post, just goes to /blog

    so that htaccess you suggested merely forward everything to
    /blog/

    Thread Starter richiedude

    (@richiedude)

    14 years, 4 months ago

    anyone?

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