[haku]

I am trying to create a 301 redirect from site.com/access/index.htm to site.com/info/map.html

I am using this code in my .htaccess file (in the root directory):

Redirect 301 /access/index.htm http://www.site.com/info/map.html

The redirect works - kind of. The problem is that it is redirecting me to site.com/info/map.html/ (note the trailing forward slash). The page itself has google maps on it, and they don't work when the trailing slash is added to the URL.

Does anybody have any ideas on how to solve this problem?

[benbacardi]

I would do this with mod_rewrite instead I think:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/access/index.htm$ http://www.site.com/info/map.html [R=301]

[haku]

Well, I got it to work by adding another .htaccess to the /info directory

RedirectMatch 301 (.*)\.html/$ http://www.site.com$1.html

I want to keep the permanent redirect, because when I'm done this site (tomorrow I hope!) I'm going to submit a sitemap to google. I know for a fact the pages are indexed on google, so hopefully this will help me keep the meagre seo rating they have.

[che09]

May I know why you need to create a Redirect page?

[Rob Kaper]

Sometimes you have to reorganise your URL structure and you want to avoid inconvenience for those who still have the old URLs available. It is good practice to update any publically available reference to point to the new URL, but there will be references out of your control. You'll want to redirect those URLs for a while, until the references are updated or become obsolete.

[Karl Buckland]

This is a very old topic! I expect the issue has been resolved by now.

[che09]

Rob Kaper, on 25 November 2010 - 03:10 PM, said:

Sometimes you have to reorganise your URL structure and you want to avoid inconvenience for those who still have the old URLs available. It is good practice to update any publically available reference to point to the new URL, but there will be references out of your control. You'll want to redirect those URLs for a while, until the references are updated or become obsolete.

Now,I get the point! Thank you,this has been resolved!