Permalinks & Redirects — basic overview

  • Resolved daveklop

    (@daveklop)


    16 years, 1 month ago

    Hi — I’ve read numerous pages & forums posts about how to change my blog’s permalink structure and how to handle redirects from the existing “ugly” URLs.

    What I’ve not seen though, is a simple overview of how this is done. I’ve done my best to piece one together. Can someone review & make sure this is an accurate & complete set of steps? My blog is hosted on unix / apache.

    1. confirm that apache has mod_rewrite enabled
    2. confirm that WordPress has write access to .htaccess
    3. confirm that FollowSymLinks option is enabled and that FileInfoDirectives is allowed in the WP home directory

    4. Use the WordPress Dashboard to change the permalink settings
    5. Edit .htaccess to insert 301 redirects for all existing URLS OR use a permalinks migration plugin such as http://www.deanlee.cn/wordpress/permalinks-migration-plugin/

    Is that it? Thanks very much in advance for your help

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