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1. eduardosilva
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Greetings!

   I'm migrating from another blog engine to wordpress, actually at this time, the main part of my migration is complete, I'm just worried about 2 items:

   - Keeping my old links working... at the begining I was using /yyyy/mm/dd/post-title, then I switched to just /post-title (on my old blog) after migrating to wordpress, I'm still using /post-title but some old links to my blog, still point to the original format. I solved this using RewriteMatch 301

   RedirectMatch 301 /\b[1-9][0-9]{3}\b/[0-1][0-9]/[0-3][0-9]/(.*) http://example.com/$1

   (working fine)

   - Keeping feeds working - I'm trying to redirect the old feeds to wp feeds, but my Redirect Rule isn't working.

   Can you help me with this Rules? I think that my problem is to fit the "?" to the rule, I already tried some variations but it didn't worked at all.

   here is my .htaccess

   RedirectMatch 301 /\b[1-9][0-9]{3}\b/[0-1][0-9]/[0-3][0-9]/(.*) http://example.com/$1
   RedirectMatch 301 /?tempskin=_rss2 http://example.com/feed
   RedirectMatch 301 /?tempskin=_rss2 http://example.com/feed
   RedirectMatch 301 /?tempskin=_atom http://example.com/feed
   RedirectMatch 301 /?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments http://example.com/comments/feed
   RedirectMatch 301 /?tempskin=_atom&disp=comments http://example.com/comments/feed

   # BEGIN WordPress
   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
   </IfModule>

   # END WordPress

   I'm also planning to use the plugin "smart 404" to "fix" any broken link that I didn't noticed before.

   Any suggestions? Is it ok to redirect the feeds??

   thanks in advance

2. eduardosilva
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Update:
   I changed my redirect rule to a more generic rule using *

   RedirectMatch 301 /*tempskin=_rss2 http://example.com/feed

   If I access my blog http://example.com/?tempskin=_rss2 the redirect will not work.

   If instead of the "?" insert any other character the redirect will work
   example:
   Access http://example.com/Btempskin=_rss2 will correctly redirect to http://example.com/feed
   A redirect for the feeds is my last adjustment that i need to switch from my old blog to wp.

   Any ideas?
   Thanks

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