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pjrobertson · 31st May 2008, 04:19 PM

Well, I've just moved all my files from .html to .php but most search engines still point to the html files.

I've made a .htaccess file with this in:

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RedirectMatch 301 (.*)\.html$ $1.php
ErrorDocument 404 http://example.co.uk/error_docs/404.html

Which works, except I have some pages (as you can see, 1 is the 404 page) that need to stay as html. Some others are the googlesitemap validation file.

I've looked at

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/error_docs$

but I can't seem to get it to work. What's the best way of excluding files

the files I have are:

/error_docs/404.html
google466e821b876059fa.html

and a few folders such as
/design/
/scripts/

and a few others.

So as not to make a new topic: a few other things.

the 404 redirect:

sites like amazon.co.uk DON'T redirect the user to a new page if they get a 404

e.g. if you go to http://amazon.co.uk/adkfhkh
the error show up on that page as opposed to being sent to amazon.co.uk/custom404page.html

is there a way of doing this?

The final thing:

I recently updated the diary / blog on the site to wordpress (from 100% manual!)
so I have pages like
nov07.html
dec07.html
etc. that I want to redirect to /diary/

is there a way of doing this?

I've tried

Code:

RedirectMatch 301 (.*)07\.html$ /diary

thanks

31st May 2008, 04:19 PM	#1 (permalink)
pjrobertson Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Wales, UK Posts: 37	exclude certain files from .htaccess redirect Well, I've just moved all my files from .html to .php but most search engines still point to the html files. I've made a .htaccess file with this in: Code: Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RedirectMatch 301 (.)\.html$ $1.php ErrorDocument 404 http://example.co.uk/error_docs/404.html Which works, except I have some pages (as you can see, 1 is the 404 page) that need to stay as html. Some others are the googlesitemap validation file. I've looked at RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/error_docs$ but I can't seem to get it to work. What's the best way of excluding files the files I have are: /error_docs/404.html google466e821b876059fa.html and a few folders such as /design/ /scripts/ and a few others. So as not to make a new topic: a few other things. the 404 redirect: sites like amazon.co.uk DON'T redirect the user to a new page if they get a 404 e.g. if you go to http://amazon.co.uk/adkfhkh the error show up on that page as opposed to being sent to amazon.co.uk/custom404page.html is there a way of doing this? The final thing: I recently updated the diary / blog on the site to wordpress (from 100% manual!) so I have pages like nov07.html dec07.html etc. that I want to redirect to /diary/ is there a way of doing this? I've tried Code: RedirectMatch 301 (.)07\.html$ /diary thanks Last edited by pjrobertson : 2nd June 2008 at 04:27 PM.