Archive redirection

  • Resolved Earl_D

    (@earl_d)


    1 week ago

    Just started using this plug-in thank you to the developer for creating it is so powerful. I am looking for instructions or documentation on how to create a permanent redirection for an archive slug. Example my domain dot com /documents/*.* to my domain dot com /articles/*.* So all the slugs that used to be under the archive documents to to articles. Can anyone point me in the right directions? Thanks

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  • Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    6 days, 22 hours ago

    You can use regular expressions:

    https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/

    Thread Starter Earl_D

    (@earl_d)

    6 days, 11 hours ago

    If there a delay before a regex redirect happens. I did this and I have regex and ignore case and slash selected and cleared my cache

    ^/wiki/.* to /articles/.*

    But doesn’t seem to be working. Thanks again for any help.

    • This reply was modified 6 days, 11 hours ago by Earl_D.
    Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    6 days, 10 hours ago

    Everything in the plugin is instant.

    ^/wiki/.* to /articles/.*

    That is not a regular expression. Please see the URL I mentioned above which has links to regular expression help.

    Thread Starter Earl_D

    (@earl_d)

    6 days, 7 hours ago

    Thanks for your reply and a great plug-in by the way I am trying to use it effectively but in this case I am really confused. I read that link you shared and used this example.

    A redirect that has the source URL /my-url/.* will match requests for:

    /my-url/this
    /my-url/that

    So I am hoping to get all URLs with my domain/wiki/.* to resolve my domain/articles/.*

    Seems I am not understanding how this works.

    • This reply was modified 6 days, 7 hours ago by Earl_D.
    • This reply was modified 6 days, 7 hours ago by Earl_D.
    Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    5 days, 19 hours ago

    Maybe you can give a full example of a URL and the actual redirect settings you have used? It’s not clear from your words what you are doing/have done.

    Thread Starter Earl_D

    (@earl_d)

    5 days, 6 hours ago

    I changed the archive page for content from wiki to articles so content went from urls went from

    https://mydomain.com/wiki/article-slug to https://mydomain.com/articles/article-slug

    I am trying to write a redirect to redirect all the old URLs to the new URLs

    The redirect settings are what I shared before.

    • This reply was modified 5 days, 6 hours ago by Earl_D.
    Thread Starter Earl_D

    (@earl_d)

    3 days, 3 hours ago

    Got it figured with some help here is what worked if anyone is interested.

    original url:

    ^/wiki/(.*)$

    Target url:

    /articles/$1

    Someone also suggested adding a trailing slash

    • This reply was modified 3 days, 2 hours ago by Earl_D.
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