Advanced 301 redirection for the whole site at the root of the site?

Question

I am struggling with an age problem. I inherited a site with pretty good SEO and one glaring problem. The entire site is located in the / site / subdirectory. I decided that I need to upload the site to the root directory. So something like http://example.org/site/index.php will instead be redirected to /index.php (<-, which is considered a link, if it is unclear, I mean this is the root of the site / index.php.)

We use joomla for our backend, and at the moment there are hundreds of pages on the site. I struggled to get any of the redirects that I saw to do what I want them to do. In principle, any page that our visitors visited from an old link with / site / in should be redirected to the same link, but without a star.

I am open to loading a page with / site / and creating it as if it were root. As far as I understand, this can be done with some mod-rewrite changes ( http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/85/Using+.htaccess+rewrite+rules#gs ?), But I have not been successful so far. I am launching a beta site that mimics the parent site in a subdomain that I have already moved from / site / to /, so I can test many .htaccess configurations.

Any help is appreciated ... thanks!

Answer 1

To be sure: you want to http://example.org/site/foo/bar/baz.php go to http://example.org/foo/bar/baz.php , that is, remove (via redirection) the prefix / site, if one exists, but don’t touch the URL otherwise, right? If so, it depends on which server you are using:

• If your server is Apache, you can use something like this in .htaccess :

   RedirectMatch 301 ^/site/(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 

• If it is nginx, add this to the server {...} session of your site file (usually symbolically linked inside /etc/nginx/sites-enabled ):

   location ~ ^/site/(.*)$ { rewrite ^/site/(.*)$ /$1 permanent; } 

Here is a good explanation of how such pattern-based redirects can be configured on both servers.

Answer 2

This seems to be the working answer I'll go with. In principle, this should be placed in the directory that you want to redirect, in my case, it is root / site /.

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Rewriteengine on

RewriteCond% {http_host}! ^ www.beta.example.org $ [nc]

RewriteRule ^ (. *) $ Http://beta.example.org/ $ 1 [r = 301, nc, L]

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I assume the first rule ignores www? I would like to get around this, but I don’t know exactly why it would have been created anyway. this will rewrite any URL that accesses this .htaccess file (inside your subdirectory) and direct you to the same URL without a list of subdirectories. This does not actually work with the index.php rewrite tool, but this is normal because it still reaches the correct page.

If anyone has a better option for me using Joomla, I would be happy to hear it. But, I already want it because it gives me great results.

Answer 3

if your server is apache2 you can configure there

 <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName sitio.com ServerAlias www.sitio.com DocumentRoot /home/user/public_html/sitio/ ... </VirtualHost> 

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