Have you tried using a regular expression instead of simple matching. Here is the link to the doc:
https://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/redirection/
Within that doc, there is an example of how you capturing a group of characters from the original URL and use it to build the new URL:
A couple of examples:
/blog/(.*) => /$1
This will match any URL that starts with /blog/, and will redirect it to the same URL but without /blog/. For example, /blog/2006/10/01/mypost will be redirected to /2006/10/01/mypost.
/2006/month_(\d+)/(.*) => /2006/$1/$2
This will match any URL that starts /2006/month_, and is then followed by a number. This will be redirected to the same URL, but without month_. For example, /2006/month_1/something will be redirected to /2006/1/something.
To replace a single dash in a URL with a space:
/tags/(.*?)-(.*?) => /tags/$1%20$2
That looks like a good way to selectively refer visitors to certain pages on the new site — but is there an easier way to just “redirect everything”?
(Background: Both of these sites have been subject to various attacks in the past year, taking one or the other of them down . . . my goal is to keep them both “sort of” ready-to-go in case of future attacks. The “official” address is http://cob.jmu.edu/econed and it just redirects to whichever of the sites is active at the time . . . should I just give up, trust backups of the one site and clean out its folder so that a standard redirect there will work? If I renamed public_html to publicx_html on the backup site and just left everything there, would that work? Quick renaming to get it back?)
The regular expression /.* will match everything
Somehow it’s still not working. In the Redirection plugin at http://williamcwood.com/econed, I’m redirecting
/.*
to
http://sites.jmu.edu/econed
but going to http://williamcwood.com/econed still loads that native page at williamcwood.com/econed.
Screenshot at this location.
Did you enable the regex checkbox? The screenshot is too small to tell
>Did you enable the regex checkbox?
Ah! That did it! Thank you!
So, for those who get this far here’s the solution: I installed the Redirection plugin and at the originalsiteURL installation of WordPress redirected
/.*
to
newsiteURL
AND checked the RegEx checkbox.
