How to 301 Redirect All old URLs to my main domain in Wordpress?

Michele D. · Aug 14, 2014

Hello webmasters,

I have a question, I have a forum like this forum, using vbulletin platform

but I have just change to wordpress cms instead of using vbulletin as before.

my problem is all URLs indexed by google like

Code:

http://www.domain.com/forums/95-my-forum-name
http://www.domain.com/threads/6236-my-thread-name
..........................
and 
http://www.domain.com/forum.php

Thus, all these old URls got 404 when I changed forum to wordpress blog.

how to How to 301 Redirect All old URLs to my main domain in Wordpress?

I prefer it looks like

Code:

http://www.domain.com/forums/95-my-forum-name  ->  http://www.domain.com
http://www.domain.com/threads/6236-my-thread-name ->  http://www.domain.com
..........................
and 
http://www.domain.com/forum.php ->  http://www.domain.com/forum/

Any helps?

Thanks in advanced!

Jovani · Aug 14, 2014

Michele D. said:

Code:

http://www.domain.com/forums/95-my-forum-name  ->  http://www.domain.com
http://www.domain.com/threads/6236-my-thread-name ->  http://www.domain.com
..........................
and 
http://www.domain.com/forum.php ->  http://www.domain.com/forum/

Hi Michele, to redirect all old urls to your main domain, you can use this code in your .htaccess file at Worpdress root directory.

Code:

RewriteRule ^forums\/(.+) http://www.domain.com [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^threads\/(.+) http://www.domain.com [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^forum.php http://www.domain.com/forum/ [R=301,L]

Complete codes for your htaccess file

Code:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^forums\/(.+) http://www.domain.com [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^threads\/(.+) http://www.domain.com [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^forum.php http://www.domain.com/forum/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Remember to change domain.com to your domain.

Hope this helps!

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How to 301 Redirect All old URLs to my main domain in Wordpress?

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