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Daystar1124
Daystar1124

Reputation: 63

Advanced 301 redirect for an entire site at site root?

I am struggling with an age old problem. I inherited a site with some pretty good SEO and one glaring problem. The entire site is hosted on the /site/ subdirectory. I have decided that I need to load the site at the root. So something like http://example.org/site/index.php will instead redirect to /index.php (<-- that counted as a link, if it is unclear I mean it to be the root of the site/index.php.)

We use joomla for our backend and there are hundreds of pages on the site at this point. I have struggled getting any of the redirects I have seen to do what I want them to do. Basically, any page our patrons visit from an old link with /site/ in it should be redirected to the exact same link, but without the star.

I am open to just loading the page from /site/ and making it look like it is from root. It is my understanding that this can be done with some advances mod-rewrite (http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/85/Using+.htaccess+rewrite+rules#gs ?) but I have not had any success yet. I run a beta site that mimics the parent site in a subdomain that I have already moved from /site/ to / so I can test a lot of .htaccess configs.

Any help is appreciated... thanks!

Upvotes: 5

Views: 672

Answers (3)

chesterbr
chesterbr

Reputation: 3050

Just to be sure: you want http://example.org/site/foo/bar/baz.php to go to http://example.org/foo/bar/baz.php, that is, to remove (via redirect) the /site prefix if it's there, but not touch the URL otherwise, right? If so, it depends on which server you're using:

  • If your server is Apache, you could use something like this in .htaccess:

    RedirectMatch 301 ^/site/(.*)$ http://example.com/$1

  • If it is nginx, add this to the server {...} session of your site's file (usually symlinked inside /etc/nginx/sites-enabled):

    location ~ ^/site/(.*)$ { rewrite ^/site/(.*)$ /$1 permanent; }

Here is a good explanation on how such pattern-based redirects can be set up in both servers.

Upvotes: 2

erajuan
erajuan

Reputation: 2294

if your server is apache2, you can configure there

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName sitio.com
ServerAlias www.sitio.com
DocumentRoot /home/user/public_html/sitio/
...
</VirtualHost>

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Upvotes: 0

Daystar1124
Daystar1124

Reputation: 63

This seems to be the working answer that I will go with. Basically, this needs put into the directory that you are wanting to redirect from, in my case, that was root/site/.

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{http_host} !^www.beta.example.org$ [nc]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://beta.example.org/$1 [r=301,nc,L]

I assume the first rule ignores www? I'd love to work around that but am not sure exactly why it would have been created anyway. this will rewrite any URL that accesses that .htaccess file (inside your subdirectory) and direct you to the same URL without the subdirectory listing. It doesn't really work with the index.php rewrite tool, but that is fine because it still reaches the correct page.

If anyone has a better option for me with use with Joomla I would be glad to hear it. But, I tihnk this is what I will go with for now because it is giving me great results.

Upvotes: 1

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