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My head is about to burst!!!:confused:



I have followed all the various different threads and suggestions, but can someone please explain why this inserted into .htaccess file doesn’t work



RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{query_string} madhousedarts.co.uk/products/Phase_1_World_Champion_Tungsten_Darts_Phil_Taylor-987-25.html

RewriteRule (.*) [url]http://www.madhousedarts.co.uk/darts-steel-tip/unicorn-darts/phase-1-world-champion-tungsten-darts-phil-taylor-10169.html[/url] [R=301,L]



We have dropped from 2000 impressions a day to just 35 due to 404 page not found!!



Thanks

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[quote name=‘The Joker’]My head is about to burst!!!:confused:



I have followed all the various different threads and suggestions, but can someone please explain why this inserted into .htaccess file doesn’t work



RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{query_string} madhousedarts.co.uk/products/Phase_1_World_Champion_Tungsten_Darts_Phil_Taylor-987-25.html

RewriteRule (.*) [url]http://www.madhousedarts.co.uk/darts-steel-tip/unicorn-darts/phase-1-world-champion-tungsten-darts-phil-taylor-10169.html[/url] [R=301,L]



We have dropped from 2000 impressions a day to just 35 due to 404 page not found!!



Thanks[/QUOTE]



Heres few samples


[QUOTE]RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ./page-one.html

RewriteRule ^.$ [url]http://www.domain.com/page-one/[/url] [L,R=301][/QUOTE]



also


[QUOTE]Redirect 301 /catalog/ [url]http://www.domain.com/[/url][/QUOTE]



these are just samples, no expert, copy paste programmer :slight_smile:

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Darius based on your comments I modified the .htaccess file with:



RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ./products/Phase_1_World_Champion_Tungsten_Darts_Phil_Taylor-987-25.html

RewriteRule ^.$ http://http://www.madhousedarts.co.uk/darts-steel-tip/unicorn-darts/phase-1-world-champion-tungsten-darts-phil-taylor-10169.html [L,R=301]



404 page not found



and



Redirect 301 /products/ [url]http://www.madhousedarts.co.uk/[/url]



404 page not found



Is the detail I’m putting in correct or not?

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something else that I have just noticed is:



the sitemap shows a links like this:



[url]http://www.madhousedarts.co.uk/personalised-products/personalised-darts-shirt-pds-001.html[/url]



however the website adds this:



[url]http://www.madhousedarts.co.uk/personalised-products/personalised-darts-shirt-pds-001[/url][COLOR=“Red”]-en[/COLOR].html



why?

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as far as I understand you need only this



Redirect 301 /catalog/ [url]http://www.example.com/[/url]



that is if you had



catalog/product.html

and now

/product.html



This may sort only products but not categories.



Older cs-cart versions did not like this way of redirect “redirect 301” and resulted in link with attached “/?sess_id=???”



You may also try



RedirectMatch 301 ^/catalog/$ http://www.example.com

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As far as I can see and understand I am adding the ‘old’ as per details and ‘new’ as per details, but it ain’t working, which is so frustrating.



Old link:

[url]http://www.madhousedarts.co.uk/products/Phase_5_Tungsten_Darts_Phil_Taylor-53-11.html[/url]



New link:

[url]http://www.madhousedarts.co.uk/darts-steel-tip/unicorn-darts/phase-5-tungsten-darts-phil-taylor-10942.html[/url]



So this should work:



RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{query_string} madhousedarts.co.uk/products/Phase_5_Tungsten_Darts_Phil_Taylor-53-11.html

RewriteRule (.*) [url]http://www.madhousedarts.co.uk/darts-steel-tip/unicorn-darts/phase-5-tungsten-darts-phil-taylor-10942.html[/url] [R=301,L]



But it don’t?

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Why are you using query string? It is what’s after the ‘?’ in the URL.



Suggest you do some more research about what you’re trying to accomplish. A link that might help you is:

[url]http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html[/url]

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What l’m trying to achieve is a 301 redirect for an old link from our previous cart to new location in our cs cart as minimise the impact on our Google ranking

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So go look up how Rewrite rules work. There is plenty of documentation that exists. You could have read appropriate docs via Google search in less time that you’ve spent posting here.

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I’ve spent last few days search n reading about it non of it works.

I thought someone on here would know since the vast majority of cs cart users will have been in the same boat at sometime or other.

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But you’re not following the directions given!

Darius gave you examples using %[REQUEST_URI] and you changed it to using $[QUERY_STRING] and then you wonder why it doesn’t work.



You can find thousands of examples in Google and the link I gave you gives both and overview and examples.



Rewrite rules do work but you either need to know what you’re doing or follow the directions provided.



I don’t claim to be a RewriteRule person at all so that’s why I don’t give you examples.

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Looks like we have this sorted now, thanks

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Google ranking is not needed outside the chain of high quality, work