How to import a huge set of link redirections?

Can you show the redirects you created?

Absolutely John and thanks for the quick response

Here is an example
https://d.pr/i/T02R6v

and this is the outcome in the CSV export

source,target,regex,type,code,match,hits,title
“/ita”,”*”,”0″,”url”,”301″,”url”,”0″,””
“/ita/acsh.html”,”*”,”0″,”url”,”301″,”url”,”0″,””
“/ita/vapsiemens.html”,”*”,”0″,”url”,”301″,”url”,”0″,””
“/ita/timeh.html”,”*”,”0″,”url”,”301″,”url”,”0″,””

(last row)

how can I perform a bulk import? I have a hundred of records which should be a pain to input one at a time ??

thanks for your help for now!

I did another test, without including the domain name and it worked well (I can see something in the target column)

That being said, I created the CSV using Excel but when importing it says 0 records imported as the CSV file format is not valid (check the file format or smth like that, in Italian).

I exported it using Excel 365 on a Mac, either as CSV UTF8 and CSV but nothing will work :/

any ideas?

thanks a lot
Marco

FYI, I also tried using a CSV to JSON online converter
https://www.freeformatter.com/csv-to-json-converter.html

and the text file, saved as .json, still cannot be imported…

thanks

PS: Does this help to debug?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fwo9w8rq0jv9zu5/Template%20Import%20di%20Redirection%20-%20Pieno.csv?dl=0

• This reply was modified 6 years ago by marcofama.

Ok, you have created a server redirect. That cannot be exported as CSV. I know this is not clear.

If you created the CSV with Excel and it failed to import then it is likely you did not create a CSV file, but something else. The file needs to be comma-separated, not semi-colon separated or any other separator.

The Redirection JSON is a structured format and there is nothing a CSV convertor can produce that will work.

Thanks for the explanation

it helped me understanding that, although excel calls it “Comma Separated” actually it used the “;” to separate items, ouch!

I should be ok now. Will let you know if that works in production when I switch the site, hopefully it will still handle requests after a server-wise 301 HTTP > HTTPS redirect too.

Thanks for now John, really appreciated

PS: just in case, do you have a guide showing why and what could cause redirect loops / ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS ?

I dont have a guide, but a loop is basically when a redirect goes to a target that is redirecting back to the source (directly or indirectly). Typically these are created with greedy regular expressions, but it’s possible to create them with normal redirects.

For example, you have two redirects that create a loop:

/source => /target
/target => /source

Love it – and now in production all seems to be cool, thanks ??

PS: can I support and donate for your project plugin and kind support you provide for free (separately from my clients’ site?!) I don’t want the donation to be associated to their site basically…

Nothing is associated with a particular website, so through the plugin is great.

Fantastic, thank you!

just a very dumb one.

What if I want to create a rule to say for example:

“Take all the incoming connection to /eng and divert them to / “?

if I put /eng* it says that it might be a regex but it’s not and I’m not sure how to config that

can you please help with this little input only?

You can find more details about regular expressions here: https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/

/eng* is not a regular expression, it would probably need to be /eng.*