Page navigation – subsite to new site

  • kmjwpdesign

    (@kmjwpdesign)


    8 years ago

    Hi,

    I’m not sure how this can be done as this is the first time I am creating a new site to replace the current one by creating a subset. I’d like the Urls to stay the same as what I have in place for the current site, but I’m not sure how to do this. The current site is HTML. valleyforgeaudubon.org/bfn/index.html the I am adding these page to a new site (subsite) and end up with /backyards-for-nature instead of /bfn/…. There are many blog posts that use the old structure and I would hate to lose traffic. How would I make this change, redirect, something within the folder structure (the HTML pages can be located in the file structure for the main site valleyforgeaudubon.org)?

    Thanks!

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    You should setup your new site in whatever way makes the most sense without concern for whatever the old site does. You can do 301 redirects (RewriteRule) through .htaccess to route old site requests to the equivalent new site pages. Whatever page rank has accumulated for old pages should be attributed to the new page this way.

    Ideally, the page/post names are nearly identical or at least consistently different so a single rewrite rule set can cover all or most requests for the old site. If not, there may need to be a unique rewrite rule for each page. Even so, if there’s any page rank accumulated, it’s worth doing.

    For anything that’s not worth a specific rewrite rule, a generic redirect to the home page for any other requests can be placed as a catch all redirect.

    Thread Starter kmjwpdesign

    (@kmjwpdesign)

    Go it, was easier than I thought! Thanks!

    Thread Starter kmjwpdesign

    (@kmjwpdesign)

    Question, I’ve gotten the redirect to work on valleyforgeaudubon.org/bfn/pdf/recommendedPlants031410FINAL.pdf to new.valleyforgeaudubon.org/back-yards-for-nature/recommended-plants/ using
    Redirect 301 /bfn/pdf/recommendedPlants031410FINAL.pdf https://new.valleyforgeaudubon.org/back-yards-for-nature/recommended-plants/

    but it doesn’t seem to work for hyperlinks in a blog post (backyardsfornature.org/?p=1003 see recommended shrubs or native tree links in post) is this because I would have to add the blog post URL?

    Thanks!

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