rewrite rule for specified pages in wordpress, and add .htm extension

[kungknas]

Hey guys,

New here....and to all this with mod_rewrite and .htaccess stuff!

But anyway, I was hoping for a friendly soul that would give me a kick in the right direction.

I recently redesign a page and used wordpress for CMS and have permalinks activated. So it looks like 'mydomain.com/mypage'

The same page on the old site had the same name but with a .htm extension. And that page had a PageRank of 3, so if I check 'mydomain.com/mypage.htm' it still has PR but 'mydomain.com/mypage' has not...

So, i want 'mydomain.com/mypage' to be 'mydomain.com/mypage.htm' and the same goes for at lest three other pages that had PR.

Is this possible to by adding rewrite rules in .htaccess? But only to apply to wordpress pages NOT posts! Or can I do it "url" by "url"?

All help would be appreciated!

[alex.w747]

Something like:

RewriteRule /([a-z]+)\.html /$1

will redirect all links like /asdf.html to /asdf.

[kungknas]

No, doesn't work, I still get the "don't exist" if I type in 'thepage.htm' and my 404 page is displayed?

EDIT: ..and wouldn't that rewrite ALL permalinks not only the one that are 'wordpress pages'?

[alex.w747]

Sorry, doublechecked that:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9]*)\.html $1

works well for me:
http://localhost/1.html is redirected to http://localhost/1

[kungknas]

First, thanks for taking the time!

...but it's not working. I don't know If I'm expecting it to do something it cant!

Ok, this is my .htaccess

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9]*)\.htm $1
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

And this is the page in question, mmaphuket.com/accommodation (no pagerank) before I redesign it that page was mmaphuket.com/accommodation.htm and that page still got pagerank 3

....so, I want them "to be the same" before Google does the next PageRank update!

[alex.w747]

Try this:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# this redirects any request that ends with .htm and 
# tells that the resource is moved permanently so the bot updates the links.
RewriteCond &#37;{REQUEST_URI} ^.*\.htm$
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9]*)\.htm $1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9]*)\.htm $1
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

[kungknas]

It works! Thanks!

...and does that means that the PR will be "transferred"?

[alex.w747]

I'm not sure, but I've used this technique on several sites and it seems that PR is transferred for pages that are handled with 301 redirect.

[kungknas]

Ah, ok, I see....that's not really a rewrite rule, it's a redirect!? Right?

So I can use that instead only for the old pages with PR and redirect them to the new ones? Because I have some new pages that has a slightly different name exept the .htm extension and want to avoid to rename all the internal links...

So, if I want to redirekt mydomain.com/contact.htm to mydomain.com/contact_us how would I write, and can I just duplicate that line for the rest of the pages?

[alex.w747]

> that's not really a rewrite rule, it's a redirect!? Right?
This is rewrite rule that cause a redirect.

> So I can use that instead only for the old pages with PR and redirect them to the new ones?
Yes.

> So, if I want to redirekt mydomain.com/contact.htm to mydomain.com/contact_us how would I write, and can I just duplicate that line for the rest of the pages?

Here is part of my .htacces for some site, long history, several CMS changed:

  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} =/blog/2/atom					[OR]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} =/blog/view/feed/id/2				[OR]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} =/export.php					[OR]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} =/Blog/Atom/					[OR]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} =/Blog/Atom
  RewriteRule ^.*$ /rss.xml [L,R=301] 

  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} =/articles/view/list/id/93				[OR]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} =/articles/view/list/id/93/			[OR]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} =/articles/view/list/id/93/categories/orm
  RewriteRule ^.*$ /node/6 [L,R=301]

and about 20 similar blocks.

[kungknas]

Ok, am I on the right track here? Would this .htacces

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*\.htm$
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9]*)\.htm $1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} =/contact.htm
RewriteRule ^.*$ /contact_us [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} =/facilities.htm
RewriteRule ^.*$ /the_facility [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Take care of all the pages that has the same name as before?
(for ex. mmaphuket.com/accommodation.htm -> mmaphuket.com/accommodation)

And then the two rules for the pages that doesn't have the same name?
(for ex. mmaphuket.com/contact.htm -> mmaphuket.com/contact_us)

[alex.w747]

You need to move

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} =/contact.htm
RewriteRule ^.*$ /contact_us [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} =/facilities.htm
RewriteRule ^.*$ /the_facility [L,R=301]

before

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*\.htm$
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9]*)\.htm $1 [L,R=301]

because now it will catch contact.htm and facilities.htm and convert them to
contact and facilities, so they will be applied on already translated url.

[kungknas]

Ok, what if I only rewrite the pages with actually pagerank and that exist in both the old and the new site! Like this...

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} =/accommodation.htm
RewriteRule ^.*$ /accommodation [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} =/links.htm
RewriteRule ^.*$ /links [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} =/faq.htm
RewriteRule ^.*$ /faq [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} =/contact.htm
RewriteRule ^.*$ /contact_us [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} =/facilities.htm
RewriteRule ^.*$ /the_facility [L,R=301]

That would do it right?

[aaronjj]

Just add something like this to your htaccess file

Redirect 301 /accommodation.htm http://www.mmaphuket.com/accommodation
Redirect 301 /links.htm http://www.mmaphuket.com/links
Redirect 301 /faq.htm http://www.mmaphuket.com/faq

[alex.w747]

aaronjj, thank you for the nice solution.

kungknas, yes. And you can try what aaronjj have suggested.

[dklynn]

Question: What in the heck is

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} =/accommodation.htm
RewriteRule ^.*$ /accommodation [L,R=301]

... supposed to do?

I've NEVER seen = in a match situation like this and .* is an abuse of the server for no apparent reason.

RewriteRule ^/?accommodation\.htm$ accommodation [L,R=301]

... will do what's intended AND the optional leading slash is only there because you didn't say which flavor of Apache you're using (Apache 1.x requires the / after ^ in the DocumentRoot, Apache 2.x thinks it's already there and will complain if it sees ^/ while ^/? keeps both versions happy).

Regards,

DK

[kungknas]

Question: What in the heck is

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} =/accommodation.htm
RewriteRule ^.*$ /accommodation [L,R=301]

... supposed to do?

I don't know!?

...that's why I asked you guys!

And thanks for your aswer!

[alex.w747]

dklynn,

The rule:

RewriteRule ^/?accommodation\.htm$ accommodation [L,R=301]

converts URL

http://localhost:8081/accommodation.htm

in

http://localhost:8081/C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/accommodation

Adding slash before accommodation solves that:

RewriteRule ^/?accommodation\.htm$ /accommodation [L,R=301]

Is it correct?

[alex.w747]

Anyway, aaronjj's solution looks better then using RewriteRule, so you can try to use it.

[kungknas]

So, slash or no slash!?

...the redirect still works, in the browser anyway!

[dklynn]

kk,

Using the leading slash in the redirect sometimes causes problems. It's supposed to be DocumentRoot but can occasionally make Apache go nuts 'cause it'll looking to its own root for the file (physical path vs VH path) - despite no logical reason for it to do so!

Regards,

DK