Redirect HELP! Please

Recently, I closed my Wordpress.org website and relaunched my site on Business Catalyst.  The domain is transferred, the website looks good, but I'm having a very difficult time to redirect links to the old site to the new.

I tried to use the URL redirects in the Admin Panel.  I downloaded the example worksheet, it has completed and successfully transferred.  I noticed for each URL 'old' he created a new folder in my site, which just seemed odd, but I'm used to using a .htaccess.

The bottom line is that the old URL are not redirect at all.

For example:

One of the old URL would be http://www.pdxhomevet.com/portland-mobile-veterinarian-faq/, which would have taken you to the FAQ of Wordpress page for my site.  The new URL is http://www.pdxhomevet.com/portland-mobile-veterinarian-faq.html

Thus, in the csv file filed I downloaded, the "old URL' was/portland-mobile-veterinarian-faq / and the"new URL"was/portland-mobile-veterinarian - faq.html

He did create a new folder on my site, but it does not redirect to the new page.

Help please!  I'll have to come back soon, or we will lose some business.

Thank you

Ryan

Hi Radphoto,

I will try to clarify the confusion here and hope that this will help you understand how 301 redirects work in the BC system.

If a URL ending with "/", it is treated as a file and not as a page. As mentioned Liam, you can't redirect a folder but only one page.

The pages of your site with URLs ending with a ' / ' WordPress sites, we need to use a simple trick to get the redirects work. As Liam suggested, we must use index.html in the end to redirect these URLs. Lets take the example of one of your URL:

If you want to redirect the http://www.pdxhomevet.com/portland-mobile-veterinarian-faq/ to http://www.pdxhomevet.com/portland-mobile-veterinarian-faq.html, you must create a folder with the name 'portland-mobile-vet-faq' in your BC site. Go to the 301 redirect UI and in the source folder, select the folder and in the URL, type index.html. You can then add the URL in the destination URL, and it will work.

I hope this helps.

See you soon,.

Scott Raj Rouanet

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