My creation is almost complete ...

Ok enough with the fanatical references to my website being an offspring. Right, basically i have one tiny little issue to iron out regarding the revamp of my forums. It is quite critical, but one which i am pretty confident can be resolved easily.

Throughout my forum signatures i have been advertising a couple of pages on The Staff Lounge as ./vbulletin-resources.html, but because of moving the forum location to their own folders the actual page location was ./forums/vbulletin-resources.html I decided that this was too long for search engines to rank this page as highly as it should - therefore i created the page manually using Wordpress, but unfortunately they format their pages like so, ./vbulletin-resources/

SO, could someone draw up a simple mod_rewrite which would effectively redirect all users trying to access www.staff-lounge.com/vbulletin-resources.html to www.staff-lounge.com/vbulletin-resources/ ? Obviously because of the generic URL location i would appreciate it if this was just a direct rewrite and not one like so; RewriteRule ^(.+)/(.+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ $1/vbulletin-$2-t$3.html

Thanks for your help.
To summarize;

I would like a rewrite rule which would redirect users trying to access

Code:

 www.staff-lounge.com/vbulletin-resources.html

to

Code:

 www.staff-lounge.com/vbulletin-resources/

Hello Michael,

the following rewrite rule should work as described:
RewriteRule vbulletin-resources\.html vbulletin-resources/ [L,R=301]

Thanks worked like a charm, right i thought i was done. But apparantly, i forgot about one very important aspect, the sitemap. *This .htaccess file is getting seriously complex now!*

I would basically like the following prefixed with /forums whenever accessed;
staff-lounge.com/sitemap/t-#.html

Replacing # with the corresponding topicid.
I tried the following but it didnt work;
RewriteRule ^([^/]+/t-[0-9]+\.html)$ forums/$1 [L,R=301]

Hi,

this rewrite rule looks ok, make sure that it goes before others (right after "RewriteEngine on").

Sorry to reawaken an old thread but the rewrite rule provided above now no longer seems to correctly function. I havent myself made any changes to the root .htaccess file which deals with the redirect, i can only assume that the vBSEO upgrade has effected it in some way.

Rather than ./vbulletin-resources.html being redirected to ./vbulletin-resources/, users are being sent to ./home/michael/public_html/vbulletin-resources/

Here is my root .htaccess file;

Code:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule vbulletin-resources\.html vbulletin-resources/ [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^ipb-resources\.html vbulletin-resources/ipb-resources/ [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^phpbb-resources\.html vbulletin-resources/phpbb-resources/ [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^forum-resources\.html vbulletin-resources/forum-resources/ [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^invisionfree-resources\.html vbulletin-resources/invisionfree-resources/ [L,R=301]

# BEGIN Mint
AddType application/x-httpd-php .html .htm
php_value auto_prepend_file /home/michael/public_html/mint/config/auto.php
# END Mint

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteRule ^tags/(.*)$ ?page_id=180&tag=$1
</IfModule>

Hello Michael,

please try to add "RewriteBase /" directive in .htaccess.