Title: Migrating site to WordPress
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Migrating site to WordPress

 *  [SpotOn SEO](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spoton-seo/)
 * (@spoton-seo)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migrating-site-to-wordpress/)
 * I am migrating a site and some of the pages are named mysite.com/financial_terms.
   htm is there a way to keep these page names in tact? I believe WP only likes 
   to use hyphens between words.

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 *  [stvwlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/)
 * (@stvwlf)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migrating-site-to-wordpress/#post-1192065)
 * Hi
 * You can set up Apache redirects to do a 301 redirect translation from mysite.
   com/financial_terms.htm to what the WordPress permalink would normally be, mysite.
   com/financial-terms/
 * this to use Apache mod rewrite in the .htaccess file – Google for details
 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migrating-site-to-wordpress/#post-1192076)
 * This is the format for a 301 redirect in .htaccess; one space between the old
   and new URLs:
 *     ```
       Redirect 301 mysite.com/financial_terms.htm  http://mysite.com/financial-terms/
       ```
   
 * Put redirects before any mod rewrite block that WP uses for permalinks.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migrating-site-to-wordpress/#post-1192076)
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