velmag

I just spent 1.5 hours on the phone with my hosting company trying to work around this.

I had an html site previously and had my redirects in place. I used the control panel to create the redirects, and it was saved in my .htaccess file.

I created a new wordpress site, and loaded it into my main directory, and now my redirects no longer function.

As long as there is a WordPress site in place, the .htaccess must have the wordpress information in it first. Once that information is in there, anything that’s loaded up afterwards, including redirects, will not work.

It was explained to be as being a problem between Apache and Linux.

As far as I can see, I have two choices. Make up the redirects within WordPress using a plugin, or create the folders, and put an index.html with the redirect code in the folder.

Not sure if this helps anyone else or not. If someone comes up with a better solution, I’d love to hear. ??

Velma

HA! I figured out to do it manually.

I opened the export file in notepad, deleted out all the posts and pages except for the one post I wanted to keep, and it worked!

I just imported this edited file, and it created a duplicate post WITH the comments.

I added a Move Comments plugin to the self-hosted blog, moved the comments from the duplicate post to the one I wanted to keep, and then deleted the duplicate post.

Anyway, just wanted to share how I did it, just in case for some freak reason there’s someone else out there that wants to do what I just did. ??

~ Velma