Question

I will soon relaunch my whole website on the same domain, and so i would like to redirect all old url’s to the new homepage. I’ve been looking around and have found lots of ways to do that, but no one works for me. I guess i need help from someone who really understands.

The current url’s are like this:

http://www.ffsolar.com/produtos/index.php?lingua=por
http://www.ffsolar.com/contacto/index.php?lingua=eng
http://www.ffsolar.com/inicio/index.php?lingua=ger

Which i want to redirect to the new

http://www.ffsolar.com

The old folders and files will no longer exist after the relaunch, so i think that the redirect 301 method won’t work.

So, my question is how do i do that? Do i have to use a mod-rewrite, or a simple redirect for all the old url’s?

Answer 1

You could use ErrorDocument 404 /

Or you create a RewriteRule for each url that no longer exists:

E.g.:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/produtos(.*)$ / [R]
RewriteRule ^/contacto(.*)$ / [R]
RewriteRule ^/inicio(.*)$ / [R]

You could also use RewriteRule ^produtos(.*)$ http://www.ffsolar.com/ [R]

So every url with e.g. /produtos or /contacto or /inicio will be redirected to the document root of this domain.

Also http://www.ffsolar.com/produtos/index.php?lingua=por or even http://www.ffsolar.com/produtos/just/example/random.php