Thread Starter
Jack
(@moxie)
Oh and another thing, in case the redirect doesn’t work for permalinks:
I just noticed that when I use:
redirect 301 /weblog http://www.domain.com
the redirect functions properly and all requests for /weblog including the ?p=301 are diverted, BUT all my images included in all the posts are in /weblog/archives… and none of the images is shown.
Can I correct this or should I go back to putting WordPress back were it was in the beginning? (within /weblog)
Thread Starter
Jack
(@moxie)
Hmm, no one? Or perhaps my description is not accurate enough?
In short:
1. Can I use a 301 redirect on a folder but EXCLUDE some subfolders from that redirect (because of all the images inside those folders)?
2. When using a redirect and simultaneously switching to permalinks instead of ?p=, will all my previous links be broken? (and therefore loosing my google pagerank?).
Silly question. did you move your images over?
Thread Starter
Jack
(@moxie)
All the images in my posts have have absolute links:
http://www.mysite.com/weblog/images
WordPress was also located inside /weblog.
But now I moved the WordPress files to a seperate folder in the root, /wordpress, and only kept the index.php inside the root.
So then I made a redirect from /weblog to the root. All the URL’s of the images are still the same and they are printed correctly inside the sourcecode. But I guess that when the page calls for an image inside /weblog/images this call is also redirected to the root.
Does that mean I should replace all the URL’s inside my database?
I’m asking all this because I read somewhere that it’s best to have the first page of a website contain a lot of text instead of a first index.html with only <body onload=… > to the /weblog/index.php.
Are your wordpress files in root or in root/wordpress now?
Thread Starter
Jack
(@moxie)
/wordpress
So I wanted it like this:
index.php (the wordpress-file)
/weblog (for all the images and static files)
/wordpress (for all the rest of the wordpress files)
Is it possible you could just move all remaining /weblog folders into /wordpress and rename /wordpress to /weblog.? (then fix the rewrite and the blog settings?)
Thread Starter
Jack
(@moxie)
In that case I wouldn’t need to move all the wordpress files into their own folder ;), I could just leave all the wordpress files and all the images and archives within /weblog. That was the old situation! :). But I would like to move just the wordpress ‘index.php’ file to the root of my site so it’s accessible by domainname and I wouldn’t need to make a redirect to /weblog anymore. But in this case I need to redirect all the old links I have in google from /weblog to http://www.mydomain.com. But there’s the problem. Also the content of the subfolders within / weblog are redirected, resulting in empty space in my blo :(.
When I make the redirect, accessing an old link (/weblog/?p=322) results in an empty page…
I’m afraid I’m making a mess of this thread :). I’m sorry.
Do you know what I’m trying to do now?
Thanks for your efforts to understand…
last try:
index is in root
/wordpress has the blog files
/weblog has the images and a redirect to index in root.
put the images in a root/images folder(corresponding to the original path and where the redirect goes)
Thread Starter
Jack
(@moxie)
I’ll try that later on during the day (have to get out for a moment 😉 )
Thanks!
