How Do I Forward Page URLs After The Page Has Been Deleted?

Sean101 Level 1

October 30, 2013, 12:26 am

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How do I forward the URL of a page to the home page after I delete the page?
What i am meaning is.. I am going to delete the following page: http://www.xboxlivefan.org/adminpromotion.php, but it is linked to on several places on across the net so i want to redirect the URL to the home page rather than people getting a "Page Not Found" error or something similar. This way I still benefit from click on links to the page I delete. Can someone please reply below and let me know, Thanks!

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karoshio

Hi Sean,

This simple snippet is hopefully what you're looking for, this is added into .htaccess.

Redirect 301 /adminpromotion.php http://www.xboxlivefan.org/otherpage.php

Basically it's just the first will redirect to the second, so if someone accessed file is first they will end up to the second URL.

Regards,
Karoshio

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Sean101

Thanks

In that file, can I redirect more?
Like just continue on in a list...

[HTML]

Redirect 301 /adminpromotion.php http://www.xboxlivefan.org/otherpage.php
Redirect 301 /adminpromotion.php http://www.xboxlivefan.org/otherpage.php
Redirect 301 /adminpromotion.php http://www.xboxlivefan.org/otherpage.php
Redirect 301 /adminpromotion.php http://www.xboxlivefan.org/otherpage.php

[/HTML]

But obviously not each line the same, ill change the URLs to the ones I want on each line.

13 years ago

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Sean101

I tried doing this, but it didn't work. I added the code and also tried different ways of writing the URLs but still no joy.

Redirect 301 /adminpromotion.php http://www.xboxlivefan.org/
Redirect 301 /adminpromotion.php http://www.xboxlivefan.org/index.php
Redirect 301 http://www.xboxlivefan.org/adminpromotion.php http://www.xboxlivefan.org/
Redirect 301 http://www.xboxlivefan.org/adminpromotion.php http://www.xboxlivefan.org/index.php

Redirect /adminpromotion.php http://www.xboxlivefan.org/
Redirect /adminpromotion.php http://www.xboxlivefan.org/index.php
Redirect http://www.xboxlivefan.org/adminpromotion.php http://www.xboxlivefan.org/
Redirect http://www.xboxlivefan.org/adminpromotion.php http://www.xboxlivefan.org/index.php

None of these made the page redirect to my home page.
Also, once I do get it to work, can I delete the page / file and this will still work?

13 years ago

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karoshio

Hi Sean101,

Maybe it would be worth trying it using mod_rewrite, there could be some kind of conflict within your host doing it the other way I am not aware of.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^adminpromotion\.php$ http://www.xboxlivefan.org/ [R=301,L]
 

I hope the above is correct, I get forgetful on syntax when it's been a while.

Regards,
Karoshio

13 years ago

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ultimate

These tricks will work no matter what extension is active.
1) This code will redirect all your Error 404 pages to your homepage.

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.yoursite.com/pagename.html

In addition to this, I generally add a query next to it and show the users a message on homepage telling the previous page was discontinued. Also its good for your analytics.

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.yoursite.com/pagename.html?message=404

2) If you are only interested in redirecting some pages but you don't have mod_rewrite enabled or troubled.
On the top of that page paste this PHP snippet and they will be redirected to whatever page your want.
[PHP]<?php
$url= http://www.mysite.com/pagename.php;
header("Location: $url");
>[/PHP]

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Sean101

Thanks a lot and im going to try these now and let you know how it goes

13 years ago

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Sean101

That's me done it to my affiliate store to test it out, worked fine, now any page re-directs to my home page if it doesn't exist. I didn't use the message one on this as when I done it just like this " ErrorDocument 404 http://www.lowcostseosolutions.com/ " it already shows the meesage "Oops! Your requested page was not found: But, stay here to find out the best seo service:"

Can I ask though, this is what my .htaccess file contains now..

[HTML]# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.lowcostseosolutions.com/[/HTML]

Is it ok that I just added the new line at the end of the file? or should it be in a specific place?

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ultimate

[HTML]ErrorDocument 404 http://www.lowcostseosolutions.com/[/HTML]
Is it ok that I just added the new line at the end of the file? or should it be in a specific place?

I suggest using the IF_Wrapper

<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
    # Without mod_rewrite, route 404's to index page.
    ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
</IfModule>

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Sean101

So the whole file to look like this? ..

[HTML]# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
ErrorDocument 404 http://www.lowcostseosolutions.com/
</IfModule>

[/HTML]

Update..
Infact, like this would be better? ..

[HTML]# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
ErrorDocument 404 http://www.lowcostseosolutions.com/
</IfModule>
# END WordPress[/HTML]

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ultimate

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

This already tells the web server to redirect all requests for a non existing file to the main script /index.php. But, that is possible only if your mod_rewrite module is enabled.

<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
ErrorDocument 404 http://www.lowcostseosolutions.com/
</IfModule>

This is a fallback logic. This will work only if your mod_rewrite is disabled or does not exist.

Anyway, for WordPress, plenty of plugins exist for stuffs like redirects. And, I would not recommend playing with the .htaccess of WordPress, it will make the site very unstable.

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