301 redirects made via .htaccess are going to 404 pages
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Hi helpful people,
I have an old site zoes.gallery which contains much amateurish work which I don’t want associated with myself professionally, and I have a new site zoelarkin.com. My old site however contained about 8 blog posts which regularly get 50+ hits a day and seem useful to people (reviews, info).
I’m getting these handful of popular posts redirected to my new domain.
I’m using Filezilla and modifying my .htaccess file to redirect those popular blog posts (not all. Just 5 or so, plus eventually the homepage) to my new site with the hopes that the many random Googlers & people that have my old URL, will get straight to my new site.
I did a test after much research, attempting to redirect 3 URLS from my old site (zoes.gallery) to the new (zoelarkin.com). However, my posts were not visible after redirection. I don’t understand what I did wrong.
Here’s my code added to my .htaccess file of my OLD website FTP .htaccess file.
# BEGIN 301 Redirects
Redirect 301 /2016/12/23/photographing-the-bay-bridge-san-francisco// https://www.zoelarkin.com/photographing-the-bay-bridge-san-francisco/
Redirect 301 /2016/12/08/the-joy-of-oakland-oaklandloveit// https://www.zoelarkin.com/2016/12/08/the-joy-of-oakland-oaklandloveit/
Redirect 301 /2017/03/31/simple-text-post// https://zoelarkin.com/2017/03/31/simple-text-post/
# END 301 RedirectsThe original posts are:
https://www.zoes.gallery/2016/12/23/photographing-the-bay-bridge-san-francisco/
https://www.zoes.gallery/2016/12/08/the-joy-of-oakland-oaklandloveit/
https://zoes.gallery/2017/03/31/simple-text-postWith the first redirect, the message comes: Not Found. We couldn’t find what you were looking for.
With the second, the message comes: This page isn’t working. https://www.zoelarkin.com redirected you too many times.
With the third, it’s the same as the second.I’m not an expert with coding/websites and this is my first time. What am I doing wrong? Why are the 3 redirects showing 2 different error codes and more importantly they are not going to my new domain zoelarkin.com and showing the same content as the old, original post? I thought I’d followed the instructions fully and I have spent many hours researching how to do this and practising through trial and error.
Any help appreciated.
Thank you.
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