Re: Redirect From Old Ecommerce Site To New Ecommerce Site

You should always try to build your own sites. Using other people's databases and logic gets you into situations where you have no control.

I know little about Linux but when you redirect to the home page your should log the referring URL so you can make a 301 redirect for that specific URL. Are you using 301 or 302 to redirect to the home page?

On Mar 20, 2012 12:10 PM, "Wallaby" <ian@write-research-office.com> wrote:

Thanks everyone for your replies.
This is what I have done to get out of doo doo. I added ErrorDocument
404 /index.php to .htaccess
What that does is points all bad url to the home page. This got rid of
all 404 errors but it does not help with permanent redirects.

I want to do a bit more.

The old url and the new url are completely different because of
different databases. I have no access to the old server because the
host reseller did a runner :) Any suggestion of accessing the old host
server is out of the question.
Because the url's are different, I cannot do a straight rewrite rule
so I need to be a bit more creative but am having syntax problems.

The site is jewelry and categorized as necklace, bracelet, earings
etc.
I am looking for a way to take any file that has one of those category
names in the url and redirect it to a specific url. For instance, an
old url with the word "earring" in it would redirect to http://myurl/earrings.php

What I have tried is,
Redirect ^.*(earrings).* $ http://myurl/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=103_104
[R,NC]

What this SHOULD do, is collect all characters then the word earrings
then any other characters and send them to a category list for
earrings. The problem here is that it wants rewrite those characters
into the new url.

I want to discard those characters and only use the word earrings.

Anyone got good htaccess knowledge?

thanks for your help

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