Redirecting old blog urls to new WP blog

  • hakkow

    (@hakkow)


    11 years, 7 months ago

    Hi,

    I recently upgraded my old website which was build on the Jaws CMS to WordPress. Now’I’m faced with old URL’s which I need to redirect to my new pages.

    The old url are like this:
    apps.xclusion.nl/index.php/pages/general/f1weather.html
    and I need to redirect this to
    apps.xclusion.nl/?page_id=36.

    I tried using .htaccesto redirect, but this doesn’t seem to work.
    This website runs in a subfolder, so I assume i should still use the root .htaccess to accomplish this right?

    Any help would be highly appreciated!

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  • Bas Schuiling

    (@basszje)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    If this change is permanent I wouldn’t use htaccess for this since it would slow the thing down and doesn’t fix the problem.
    Maybe you can just change the URL in the database?

    Second thing you could do is using the root index.php to fix this problem with some PHP and a redirect array.

    Third I would recommend to not use the page.php?id=36 system, but the full title URL since this improves SEO a lot.

    Thread Starter hakkow

    (@hakkow)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    Okay, thank for the reply.
    I’ll try to edit the index.php, that would be the best option then.

    I tried setting the permalinks to use ‘Post name’, but then my page breaks. I get 404’s on every link I click on my webpage.

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