Help with linking redirect

[kaus]

To help find my 301's can I just add a link to the file ie. wwwdotmysite.com/htaccess.txt


Will this be enough or should I list everything that is in my file?

[ProPokerMedia]

Originally Posted by kaus

To help find my 301's can I just add a link to the file ie. wwwdotmysite.com/htaccess.txt

Will this be enough or should I list everything that is in my file?

i'm not sure i understand your question, but linking to your .htaccess file isn't going to work. add this in your .htaccess file and change to fit your situation:

Redirect Permanent /previous-directory/or-filename.html /new-directory/or-filename.php

the above should be pretty self explanatory


also... if you're looking to find errors you can use xenu's link sleuth; it's a great little free ap that would be perfect for helping you through a site's directory or filename transition:
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html


hope this helped

[kaus]

Ya. However my 301's are not working for some reason

[ProPokerMedia]

Originally Posted by kaus

Ya. However my 301's are not working for some reason

that's interesting... paste your .htaccess file here

[kaus]

Thanks for taking a peek here is one part of it.

The site had one redirect on some of the pages already like I said in earlier posts it went from _ to -

I am now putting all pages into categorized subfolders which means those pages that had teh redirect are now added aswell. You see.

redirect 301 /old_page.html http://www.pokerriveronline.com/bankroll-management.html\par
redirect 301 /old_page_1.html http://www.pokerriveronline.com/bankroll-management.html\par
\par
redirect 301 /old_page.html http://www.pokerriveronline.com/bankroll-management.html\par
redirect 301 /old_page_1.html http://www.pokerriveronline.com/articles/bankroll-management.htm\par 
\par

[Notspot]

Make sure your htaccess file is called

.htaccess

not

htaccess.txt

notice there's no .txt at the end and a "." at the beginning.

[kaus]

Thanks and I did that....lol didnt realize I had two files named htaccess originally.

Now I have anotehr problem. It is giving me a internal server 500

This is happening even with teh redirect of non www to www

Any idea as to what is causing this? The code is right...and it was written in notepad. Otehr than that I don;t have a clue

Thanks by the way

[kaus]

Here is the beginning of it in case this is the problem

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^pokerriveronline\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.pokerriveronline.com/$1[/URL] [R=301,L]
{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}}
{\*\generator Msftedit 5.41.15.1507;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs20 Redirect /olddirectory/oldfile.html http://www.pokerriveronline.com/ulti...wfile.html\par
\par
\par
redirect 301 /old_page.html http://www.pokerriveronline.com/poke...ware.html.\par
redirect 301 /old_page_1.html http://www.pokerriveronline.com/mico...eview.html\par
\par
redirect 301 /old_page.html http://www.pokerriveronline.com/mico...iew.html\.\par
redirect 301 /old_page_1.html http://www.pokerriveronline.com/poke...eview.html\par
\par
redirect 301 /old_page.html http://www.pokerriveronline.com/ulti...eview.html\par
redirect 301 /old_page_1.html http://www.pokerriveronline.com/ulti...eview.html\par
\par

[ProPokerMedia]

why do you have \par in your htaccess?

[kaus]

I am using the same htaccess that I had on site. When I first did the cide that was not included but was somehow added........does any of that make sense.

Really I don't know why...it was there originally and all was well so I just followed the same format.