Getting strange 404 hits for changed url:s – how redirect them?

  • Resolved Cecilia Svensson

    (@ceciliasvensson)


    9 years, 5 months ago

    Hello all!

    I have a lot of records in my Redirection 404 list and I’m trying to sort things out.

    I have previously changed the url for pages and posts, not taking care of redirections. (I do now!)
    I also thought that WP took care of redirection for posts, but apparantly not.

    Here is an example of what a set of 404:s in the log can look like:
    /the-old-url/
    /the-old-url/mm/dd
    /the-old-url/mm/dd/yyyy
    /the-old-url/_gat._forceSSL

    What I’ve done is I have created a redirection for the first one:
    /the-old-url/
    to
    /the-new-url/

    I’m not sure what I should do with the 3 extra?

    Should I just delete them and not create redirections for them?
    or
    Should I create redirections?

    If yes, should I redirect all three to /the-new-url/
    or
    individually to
    /the-new-url/mm/dd
    /the-new-url/mm/dd/yyyy
    /the-new-url/_gat._forceSSL

    Also I wonder if someone could explain how come the three extra urls were created.

    I have WP 4.0 and Redirection v 2.3.10

    /Cecilia

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/

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  • Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Only create redirections for URLs that previously existed.

    Don’t worry about extra URLs appearing in the 404 log. This could mean many things, but the URLs should return a 404 – this indicates the URL does not exist, and should not exist. If you add a redirection then it means that it used to exist.

    Thread Starter Cecilia Svensson

    (@ceciliasvensson)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Thank you John!

    /Cecilia

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