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Rubioli
Rubioli

Reputation: 725

Redirect all links from previous website to new website

My application was built with WordPress. After 4 years I migrated from WordPress to Ruby on Rails 4.2.4.

My google page score is very good and I would like to redirect my WordPress links to my new setup (Ruby on Rails). My Ruby on rails applications link structure is different then WordPress.

PS: I still on same domain

WP Link Structure: my-website.com/year/month/day/Post-Title

Ruby on Rails Link Structure: my-website.com/p/Post-Title

How can I permanently move old links to my new links and have SEO in mind.

I am basically doing this for SEO

Upvotes: 0

Views: 205

Answers (1)

Olaf Dietsche
Olaf Dietsche

Reputation: 74078

To redirect from old links structure to another, while keeping only a part of the original URLs, you must capture this part and use it in the target URL

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^.+?/.+?/.+?/(.+)$ /p/$1 [R,L]

The first three .+? match year, month and day. The final (.+) captures the title, so it can be reused in the target URL /p/$1.

When everything works as it should, you may replace R with R=301 (permanent redirect). Never test with R=301.

Upvotes: 1

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