redirect subdomain to root domain & redirect old permalinks

BSK
(@vdsn)

9 years, 9 months ago

ok, i have at site a blog.mysite.com, and recently migrated all content to a new wp install at mysite.com.

i want to redirect all of the posts from blog.mysite.com to mysite.com and also account for permalink structure.

blog.mysite.com is /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

mysite.com is /%category%/%postname%/

the goal is if anyone goes to

blog.mysite.com /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

they will be redirected to

mysite.com is /%category%/%postname%/

i want to ultimately delete all content at blog.mysite.com as well, so i wound want to make this work via .htaccess after it’s deleted. i do not want to use a plugin to accomplish this.

i can’t seem to work out exactly how to do this in .htaccess using mod_rewrite.

also, both sites live in their own directories on the server.

/blog.mysite.com and /mysite.com

thanks so much for your help!

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janet4now
(@janet4now)

9 years, 9 months ago

this article https://yoast.com/change-wordpress-permalink-structure/

(from a plugin which I know you don’t want to use) has a link to a redirect generator

https://yoast.com/wp-content/permalink-helper.php

that i think will make this easy for you.

Thread Starter BSK
(@vdsn)

9 years, 9 months ago

Thanks for getting back. Yes, I looked at that before and it seems to only redirect to /%postname%/ not /%category%/%postname%/

The main reason I don’t want to use a plugin is because I ultimately want to delete the blog.mysite.com install, which would in turn delete any plugin functionality used there for the redirects.

Thanks again!

janet4now
(@janet4now)

9 years, 9 months ago

maybe you could use this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/quick-pagepost-redirect-plugin/

then export the results to use in your htaccess file so you can delete the wordpress install

What is your site?

hattendesign
(@hattendesign)

9 years, 9 months ago

Its hard to do without a plugin to translate your old links but wordpress has a clever way to work with changed links. (as long as the postname doesn’t change)

Option 1 via old wordpress
1. change the permalink structure on the old site to match the new site.
2. change the wordpress url on blog.site.com to site.com

option 2 via htaccess on blog.site.com
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:blog\.)site\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://site.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

Thread Starter BSK
(@vdsn)

9 years, 9 months ago

thanks everyone – these look like good solutions. i’ll give this a go & mark this thread solved once i do some testing.

thank you!!!
Thread Starter BSK
(@vdsn)

9 years, 9 months ago
@hattendesign
option 2 via htaccess on blog.site.com
```
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:blog\.)site\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://site.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
```
would this rewrite rule also account for the permalink change at blog.mysite.com? meaning it would redirect /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ permalink structure to /%category%/%postname%/ at mysite.com?

thanks!
hattendesign
(@hattendesign)

9 years, 9 months ago

for example…
This is the actual link with /category/postname
http://fightageism.net/stereotypes/why-talking-to-a-senior-might-be-your-greatest-key-to-knowledge/

This is not a real parmalink but it /year/month/day/postname… since it has the postname, wp resolves the name..

http://fightageism.net/2013/07/21/why-talking-to-a-senior-might-be-your-greatest-key-to-knowledge/

so yes it accounts for the different permalink structure

Thread Starter BSK
(@vdsn)

9 years, 8 months ago

@hattendesign – option 2 worked for me. thanks so much for your help everyone!

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