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1. Percept
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Hi,

   I've redesigned a (formerly static) website and put WordPress behind it. Now I want to redirect the former static category pages to the new wordpress categories but it's not exactly doing what I want and I can't seem to fix it myself:

   here's an example:

   the old url was:
   http://www.domain.com/mag/category.php

   the new url is:
   http://www.domain.com/news/category/

   my htaccess redirect rule is:
   Redirect permanent /mag/category.php http://www.domain.com/news/category/

   and this is where it redirects to:
   http://www.domain.com/news/category/?category_name=mag&name=category.php&page=

   So the redirection url is fine EXCEPT that it's still adding variables at the end.

   Can anyone tell me how I can fix this redirect so t redirects to http://www.domain.com/news/category/ without the variables.

   Thanks in advance !

2. niziol
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   The following rule always works perfectly for me:

   RedirectMatch permanent ^/news/category.php$ /news/category/

   Cheers,
   Michael.

3. Percept
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   niziol, thanks for the reply but that has the exact same result as my redirect rules, so people still end up at http://www.domain.com/news/category/?category_name=mag&name=category.php&page=

   which returns a 404

4. Percept
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   ps: notice that I'm redirecting an old directory 'mag' to 'news' it's not just the extension that's changes.

5. Percept
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Anyony an idea maybe ? I really want to fix this ...

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