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1. Eric Murphy
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   I have WP multi-site installed.

   On that multi-site there is a blog about how to fight hemorrhoids (www.xxxx.com/hemorrhoids)

   Since "hemorrhoids" is a difficult word to spell I would like different spelling (including wrong ones) to be redirected.

   Example:
   multisiteblog.com/hemorhoids --> multisiteblog.com/hemorhoids
   multisiteblog.com/haemorhoids --> multisiteblog.com/hemorhoids
   multisiteblog.com/hemorrhoids --> multisiteblog.com/hemorhoids

   In other words: I as superadmin want to be able to define aliases for a blog name. These aliases would then redirect to the "main/original" name.

   Is there any plugin for such a redirection?

   Any help is appreciated!

2. Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   I don't know if there's a plugin, but you can certainly do that in .htaccess.

   Redirect 301 /hemorhoids http://multisiteblog.com/hemorhoids
   Redirect 301 /haemorhoids http://multisiteblog.com/hemorhoids
   Redirect 301 /hemorrhoids http://multisiteblog.com/hemorhoids

   Just put it above the WordPress lines in your .htaccess :)

3. Eric Murphy
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   Yeah, I know I can do it per htaccess. But I wanted it more manageable either by the superadmin or by the blog admin.

4. Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   You'd have to play with http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/ and similar plugins to be sure.

   I would caution you with this: redirects have the potential to be very, very, dangerous. They really are best served if you do it 'right' inside .htaccess.

   Also you're balancing the 'weight' a plugin with what you could optomize to one line of code:

   RewriteRule ^(hemorhoids|haemorhoids|hemorrhoids|hammeroids|moretypos|moretypos) http://multisiteblog.com/hemorhoids [L,R=301]

   (The super admin should have ssh/sftp access to the server anyway. If anything, a plugin to edit the .htaccess from the Network Admin screen would be the way to go)

5. Eric Murphy
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   OK, thank you very much for your help.

   I will use

   RewriteRule ^(alias1|alias2|alias3)/(.*)$ http://xxx.com/finalfolder/$2 [R=301,L]

   It's important to put it pretty at the top of the htaccess, otherwise WP will complain "You don't have sufficient rights visit xxx.com/alias1"

6. Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   Doesn't have to be at the very top, but it does have to be above the WP calls (as I mentioned ;) ) so that you don't loop through the WP look ups too many times. That would slow your site down over time.

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