Renamed Category and forums - redirect

[WiseHYIP]

Tags working perfectly, thanks a lot !!

But I don't understand what the first line does:

'^f([0-9]+)/i([0-9]+)\.html$' => 'f$1/index$2.html'

'^f22/(.*)\.html$' => 'f22/$1/'

^^This works for one forum, is there an option to do this in one line for all my forums?

Is there not a way to redirect all .html to / ?

[Andrés Durán Hewitt]

Tags working perfectly, thanks a lot !!

But I don't understand what the first line does:

'^f([0-9]+)/i([0-9]+)\.html$' => 'f$1/index$2.html'

That rule redirects the 'Forum Pagination' pages from the old format to the new one.

'^f22/(.*)\.html$' => 'f22/$1/'

^^This works for one forum, is there an option to do this in one line for all my forums?

You don't need to use that one.

[WiseHYIP]

'^f([0-9]+)/i([0-9]+)\.html$' => 'f$1/index$2.html'
'^tags/(.*)\.html$' => 'tags/$1/'
'^blogs/(.*)\.html$' => 'blogs/$1/'
'^content/(.*)\.html$' => 'content/$1/'
'^(.*)\.html$' => '$1/'

This seems to work am I doing it correctly?

'^f([0-9]+)/i([0-9]+)\.html$' => 'f$1/index$2.html'
'^(.*)\.html$' => '$1/'

This seems to work even better

[Andrés Durán Hewitt]

Looks fine, but I'm wondering what's supposed to do the last one?.

[WiseHYIP]

The last one changes everything from .html to /

Example:
http://www.website.com/tags/elite.html -> becomes -> http://www.website.com/tags/elite/
http://www.website.com/content/elite.html -> becomes -> http://www.website.com/content/elite/
http://www.website.com/blogs/username/test.html -> becomes -> http://www.website.com/blogs/username/test/

it works everywhere so I don't need to adjust it for each forum manually

It does exactly what I needed, because Google was linking everything to -> .html and now it redirects to my new stucture.

so basically there is nowhere in my forum now the .html at the end and it seems to be working perfectly and if someone links or uses his bookmark to the old structure with .html at the end it redirect nicely.

Thanks a million time !

[Andrés Durán Hewitt]

If you don't face issues, then, go ahead.

[WiseHYIP]

can I now also change the website.com to www.website.com with these redirect rules?

non-www to www.

[Andrés Durán Hewitt]

[How to] Setup www.yourdomain.com or yourdomain.com (www vs. non-www) - With .htaccess 301 redirects

You may enable the RewriteRules included with the vBSEO default .htaccess

[WiseHYIP]

Okay it seems like I do get one error now: When a Forum has more then 1 page it links to index.html and thus I cannot visit this page because of the redirect

I have changed back to the previous version. (only content/blog & tags)

[Brian Cummiskey]

that last rule is very generic and is likely the problem. what is your exact pagination format?

[Andrés Durán Hewitt]

Okay it seems like I do get one error now: When a Forum has more then 1 page it links to index.html and thus I cannot visit this page because of the redirect

I have changed back to the previous version. (only content/blog & tags)

That's why I asked you for different URLs format. As Brian said, your last one rewrite rule tries to cover many areas, and would be hard for it not conflicting with anything.

[WiseHYIP]

what is your exact pagination format?

Where can I find this?

That's why I asked you for different URLs format.

I'm afraid to ask but hey I'm just not seeing it.. :$ where exactly did you ask this and what do you mean by different URLs formats?

[Andrés Durán Hewitt]

Hello Mike,

As I can see, you want to redirect a few URLs to a new format you have defined. I took a look at your site and I saw the old format and the new format for "forum pagination" pages, and tag pages, so that's why I supplied a couple redirects. You tried to cover all of that URL using simply one redirect.

I'm afraid to ask but hey I'm just not seeing it.. :$ where exactly did you ask this and what do you mean by different URLs formats?

Apologies for that, I thought I did it, but it doesn't happened. To redirect URLs for forums with more than a page and tag pages, I supplied a couple redirects, but you insisted in using a single redirect.

Now, starting from scratch, what URLs do you want to redirect to new format?. Please provide example URLs for old and new formats, for better assistance.

[Brian Cummiskey]

Just go to page 2 of one of your threads and paste in the link.

ie, this is

f4/renamed-category-forums-redirect-10175/index2.html

[WiseHYIP]

Hello Mike,

Apologies for that, I thought I did it, but it doesn't happened. To redirect URLs for forums with more than a page and tag pages, I supplied a couple redirects, but you insisted in using a single redirect.

Now, starting from scratch, what URLs do you want to redirect to new format?. Please provide example URLs for old and new formats, for better assistance.

I've seen that nothing is in Google anymore so therefore I don't really need the extra links anymore, I'm going to leave it now like you suggested the first time.

I shall be waiting until Google indexes me again, seems like the Webmaster Tools is having some problems.