Question

I have spreadsheet which has column of 404 error link and its respective 301 redirects.
for e.g)

404 error page                    301 redirect      

http://www.abc.com/1.php          http://www.abc/com/2.php
..............                    ............

The spreadsheet has around 1000+ links.

Is there any way in apache config or htaccess where can I handle bulk 301 redirects?

Answer 1

The best way for a Bulk setting is the RewriteMap directive in mod-rewrite. Note that this will not work in a .htaccess file. You’ll need to edit it in a real apache configuration file (and the good news is that will be really faster than a .htaccess dynamic configuration).

Check the txt: keyword first.

May be something like that:

RewriteMap myredirects txt:/path/to/my/txt/map.txt 
RewriteCond ${myredirects:$1} ^/.+
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ %0 [R=302]

When you’ll get it working well transform the 302 in 301, and convert the txt file to an faster hashmap with the dbm: keyword (and a httxt2dbm command, but that’s explained in the linked doc).