.htaccess 301 Redirect Issue

[anthonygustin]

Hey all, things had been going well remapping a site from one domain to another, but hit a snag and have searched for hours and don't know how to continue. 

1) I was moving everything from thepaleofix.com to dranthonygustin.com

2) I moved every single path individually with redirects like this: Redirect 301 /category/post http://www.dranthonygustin.com/category/post

Everything smooth sailing until today when through webmaster tools (to say site address as moved) I had to execute "Redirect 301 / http://www.dranthonygustin.com" -- now some of the urls go through and some don't include the / after the .com extension. 

For example:

http://www.thepaleofix.com > http://www.dranthonygustin.com no problem 

http://www.thepaleofix.com/resource/purepharma-m3-review/ > http://www.dranthonygustin.com/what-does-magnesium-do/ no problem

BUT a bunch of the URLs then don't push... For example:

http://www.thepaleofix.com/recipe/paleo-jam > http://www.dranthonygustin.comrecipe/paleo-jam/ (notice NO / after the .com extension)

and http://www.thepaleofix.com/wp-admin > http://www.dranthonygustinwp-admin (which of course leads to dead link)

There are a bunch of paths that do this, that I checked before and were working, such as: 

Redirect 301 /recipe/paleo-jam http://www.dranthonygustin.com/simple-vanilla-berry-paleo-jam/
 

Any idea why after implementing the / redirect, why it broke some of the redirects and not all? 

 

Thanks! 

[Macrura]

you would need something like this in your old site's root folder htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} www.thepaleofix.com.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.dranthonygustin.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Once the URLs are all forwarding from the old domain, you would then use a combination of htaccess 301, and Jumplinks (module) to handle the differences.

because with the above rules if someone requests

http://www.thepaleofix.com/resource/purepharma-m3-review/

they will definitely be redirected to

http://www.dranthonygustin.com/resource/purepharma-m3-review/

so then your local 301 or Jumplink would do the 2nd 301 to the new page

[anthonygustin]

Thanks!

 

Right, but I already had set up about 180 of the old URLs to new URL slug paths -- would I have to go through and then redo everything separately? 

[Macrura]

1 hour ago, anthonygustin said:

 already had set up about 180 of the old URLs to new URL slug paths

where are those - on the old domain?

 

[anthonygustin]

Yes, as given in examples above:

Redirect 301 /recipe/paleo-jam http://www.dranthonygustin.com/simple-vanilla-berry-paleo-jam/
 

[Macrura]

ok right, well my technique uses 2 redirects, but does guarantee that every page on the site gets redirected to it's new counterpart without having to do anything extra.

 

[rareyush]

On 9/28/2016 at 3:59 AM, Macrura said:

ok right, well my technique uses 2 redirects, but does guarantee that every page on the site gets redirected to it's new counterpart without having to do anything extra.

 

hey can you help me here, I tried your method above but it doesn't work

https://processwire.com/talk/topic/20554-mysitecom-redirected-you-too-many-times/