Wildcard Redirect Help! Wordpress not working!
Hey guys,
I just spent an hour on the phone with Hostgator while Googling looking for answers with no luck.
I moved my wordpress blog from: http://www.oldsite.com to http://www.newsite.com
The old site has a lot of links coming into it so I copied over all of the content to newsite.com in the same post / page URLs with the same post / page names.
If someone goes to http://www.oldsite.com/welcome/ for example, I would like them to be redirected to http://www.newsite.com/welcome/.
Sounds simple right? Just add a wildcard redirect in my Hostgator cpanel right?
It doesn't work! The index page redirected fine but no other page would. It just stayed on http://www.oldsite.com/welcome/.
An exact match url - http://www.oldsite.com/welcome.html will redirect to http://newsite.com/welcome.html but /welcome/ won't redirect. All wordpress posts have the /post/ structure...
The friendly Hostgator man said that wildcard redirects only work for redirecting visitors from exact file to exact file and Wordpress has a different structure. http://oldsite.com/welcome/ isn't a file so a wildcard redirect won't work.
So how can I make each page on my old site redirect to the new site without having to do it manually? There are hundreds of pages.
Is there some code that I can add to the httaccess file? If so can you paste it in here?
Thanks so much!
~Sean
I just spent an hour on the phone with Hostgator while Googling looking for answers with no luck.
I moved my wordpress blog from: http://www.oldsite.com to http://www.newsite.com
The old site has a lot of links coming into it so I copied over all of the content to newsite.com in the same post / page URLs with the same post / page names.
If someone goes to http://www.oldsite.com/welcome/ for example, I would like them to be redirected to http://www.newsite.com/welcome/.
Sounds simple right? Just add a wildcard redirect in my Hostgator cpanel right?
It doesn't work! The index page redirected fine but no other page would. It just stayed on http://www.oldsite.com/welcome/.
An exact match url - http://www.oldsite.com/welcome.html will redirect to http://newsite.com/welcome.html but /welcome/ won't redirect. All wordpress posts have the /post/ structure...
The friendly Hostgator man said that wildcard redirects only work for redirecting visitors from exact file to exact file and Wordpress has a different structure. http://oldsite.com/welcome/ isn't a file so a wildcard redirect won't work.
So how can I make each page on my old site redirect to the new site without having to do it manually? There are hundreds of pages.
Is there some code that I can add to the httaccess file? If so can you paste it in here?
Thanks so much!
~Sean
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