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Asked: 2026-06-16T06:09:00+00:00

I’ve been tasked to clean up 30,000 or so url errors left behind from

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I’ve been tasked to clean up 30,000 or so url errors left behind from an old website as the result of a redesign and development.

I normally use .htaccess to do this, but I doubt it would be wise to have 30,000 301 redirects inside the .htaccess file!

What methods have some of you used to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Thanks for help guys. I’ve carried out the suggested course of action from freedev but have created a separate config file within Apache.

    Within the httpd.conf file I have added:

    # Map settings
Include "conf/extra/map.conf"

    The map.conf file:

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteMap url_rewrite_map txt:conf/map.map
    RewriteCond ${url_rewrite_map:$1|NOT_FOUND} !NOT_FOUND
    RewriteRule ^(.*) http://website.com/${url_rewrite_map:$1} [R=301]

    The map.map file is formatted as:

    /oldname/   /newname

    I’ve added quite a few of the urls for the redirection and so far so good, it isn’t having a massive impact on the server like it did when added to .htaccess

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