slightly complicated 301 redirect issue

You want both the old pages to point to the new ones? That is pretty easy, even with Multisite ??

Rule 1) Always put your 301s and other customizations above the WordPress htaccess calls.

Rule 2) KISS ??

Redirect 301 /media-policy-and-procedures/ https://newsroom.altabatessummit.org/media-info/
Redirect 301 /media-contact/ https://newsroom.altabatessummit.org/media-info/

If you want to get a little fancier…

RewriteRule ^media-policy-and-procedures(.*)$ https://newsroom.altabatessummit.org/media-info/ [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^media-contact(.*)$ https://newsroom.altabatessummit.org/media-info/ [L,R=301]

That should cover trailing slash or not. The only reason that would be problematic is if you have those pages on other sites as well.

I took over this project two years in, and there are 6 sites, so I’ll have to go see whether those pages exist on the other sites. (Oh, someone PLEASE invent a way for the network admin to log into all the dashboards at once. PLEASE.)

Ah. Small snag. Five of the six sites have /media-info/ pages. I don’t know whether they also had older pages that need redirecting, though. The client has not mentioned any. (As the client is not known for rigorous testing, this means nothing.)

So maybe we DO need a regex?

Okay, I checked with the client. The old pages don’t exist on the other sites, so your solution will work. And it DOES work. You, @ipstenu, are a genius. I was going to make a donation for the brilliant Multi-site e-book you and @andrea_r wrote anyway, but will run over and do it now.

Glad it worked! You can still redirect if it’s on multiple sites by prefacing each rewrite with this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^newsroom\.altabatessummi\t.org

Sadly I’ve never been able to make it work right as a section, so I ended up with a slew of ‘Rewrite cond’ followed by the rule, over and over :/ I’m sure there’s a better way!

(Oh, someone PLEASE invent a way for the network admin to log into all the dashboards at once. PLEASE.)

The ‘problem’ is browsers and cookies. Subdomains are ‘kind of’ separate domains so the cookies are, for your safety, not allowed to cross domains. You can be logged in to all at once, but the cookies/login may expire :/

Does anyone actually have this working under the following scenario:

1. Old standalone sites migrated to a multisite network
2. Old sites have pages with same name so need to distinguish between domains on the new networked sites
3. New page names are different from old page names..
4. I have roughtly a dozen of these for each domain .. so already need hundreds…

Example:
Old pages:
https://domain.com/page.html
https://anotherdomain.com/page.html

New networked pages:

https://domain.com/category/newpagename
https://anotherdomains.com/category/newpagename

I have tried matching http host with a rewrite condition to no avail. The only way I’ve been successful is a vanilla:

Redirect 301 oldpage.html https://domain.com/category/newpage

… but that doesn’t cut it because the old pages have the same name on all the old sites. I’ve tried several redirect plugins as well.

I’ve love to the see the .htaccess file of a fully working site that has the same scenario!!

thanks,

Jim

I have finally resolved this one .. if anyone is in similar situation, please contact me. Part of the problem appears to have been in the order of instuctions in the WP multisite .htaccess file and which lines had the [L} directive

Basically, the working format is:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.com
RewriteRule page.html$ https://domain.com/programs/newpage/ [R=301,NC,L]
RewriteRule pg2.html$ https://domain.com/programs/newp2/ [R=301,NC,L]

I did note elsewhere that someone had found they need to repeat the RewriteCond statement before each rule, but I have now got the first 6 domains done using only the pair of conditions for www vs non www and then just the rules (about a dozen per domain) for each page where I needed to do the redirection.