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301 Redirect for Page Name Changes

I want to change a few of the page names in my site. Pretty sure I need to use a .htaccess file, which I know how to create and then upload to the root directory on my web host.

I'm also pretty sure of the code to use

Redirect 301 /previous-page.html http://www.xyz-site.com/new-page.html

What I can't seem to get right is the paths to use in the old and new field. It should be asy, but iWeb comes up with some pretty crazy URLs. As a test I changed one page name from Scanned to scanned.

This is the URL http://www.capecodupholstery.com/Photo-Gallery/Pages/scanned.html

I've tried several combinations with no luck.

Mac OS X (10.7.3), 12G Ram, AppleTV2, iPhone4, Airport

Posted on Feb 9, 2012 2:08 AM

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Wyodor

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Posted on Feb 9, 2012 4:14 AM

Here's how it works om my server :

http://home.wyodor.net/Photo-Gallery/Pages/Scanned.html

redirects to :

http://home.wyodor.net/Photo-Gallery/Pages/scanned.html

Here's how it works if the folders are empty :

http://home.wyodor.net/Photo-Gallery/

http://home.wyodor.net/Photo-Gallery/Pages/

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Joe Gramm Author

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Feb 11, 2012 5:23 AM in response to Roddy

Just wanted to report that the Redirect 301 .htaccess is up and running. I could not get the htaccess file to work until the web host added a line of PHP code within the .htaccess file and then miraculously everything I was trying to do worked. I'm not very familiar with PHP so I'm not quite sure how it changed the actions of the Redirect 301.

So all my redirects for page name changes now work as expected and I of course updated my sitemap.xml. So it should be fun over the next few weeks to see the changes taking place in Google indexing. I just wanted to include a few sites I came across that were very helpful in reference to Redirects.

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Joe Gramm Author

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Feb 11, 2012 5:43 AM in response to Wyodor

Wyodor,

I notce one of your URLs is http://home.wyodor.net/Photo-Gallery/ If I link directly to my Photo Gallery Page, my URL looks like this. http://www.capecodupholstery.com/photo-gallery/photo-gallery.html Is that normal. It's the only page on my site that formats like that.

301 Redirect for Page Name Changes