Delete page and redirect to new page

Backlight 4 & 5 Support
#1

Hi

I’m using Backlight 4. I have an old page that I want to delete and redirect attempts to open it (grom a Google search etc) to a new page.

Is that possible?

Many thanks

Andy

#2

Yes, it is with some .htaccess magic. Here is a good article showing you how to go about this: https://wpscholar.com/blog/simple-redirects-with-htaccess/

#3

Thanks Daniel, but that’s not working for me…

I’ve added this line to my .htaccess:

Redirect 301 “/Lake_District_Calendar_2020” “/Lake_District_2022_Calendar”

But when I access the old page the browser shows this as the URL and displays the old page’s content:

“https://andybellphotography.com/Lake_District_2022_Calendar/?mod_rewrite=on&page=Lake_District_Calendar_2020/”

My current workaround is to replace the old page’s content with the new, but it’s not a nice fix…

Andy

Add

This works…

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^Lake_District_Calendar_2020/?$ $1/Lake_District_2022_Calendar$2 [L,R=301]

:slight_smile:

#4

I just encountered the same problem. Another one of my pages redirects fine. Did anybody find a proper solution?

The redirect works for a gallery page but not one of my regular pages.

Thanks

#5

Actually, none of my single 301 redirects work now and the resulting URLs have something similar to this appended to the end. ?mod_rewrite=on&page=TBOI/index.html If remove the extra stuff it works.

Could this have something to do with the site redirects for https?

Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks again.

#6

Is Backlight doing some PHP business that would cause this?

#7

I don’t think so. Since Backlight now supports native https redirect, I would remove the respective lines from your .htaccess file and enable the redirect in Backlight admin > settings.

That comes from the .htaccess file.

What’s your rewrite rule? Do you have you rewrite rules before or after Backlight’s rules? Do you have a link to your page?

#8

My rule is “Redirect 301 /gallery/TBOI/ /ireland/”

I’ve tried at the beginning before anything else and at the end, after everything with the same result.

This the old link: http://www.bretculp.com/gallery/TBOI/index.html

With the redirect, the resulting URL is “https://www.bretculp.com/ireland/?mod_rewrite=on&page=TBOI/index.html”. If you remove everything from the “?” it works as it should,

There is an .htaccess.ssl file in my home directory that I didn’t create. It starts with the following code.

.# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
.# | Web fonts access |
.# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for your help.

#10

This is my .htaccess file without my redirects. Some of the line have disappeared here as as a result of the formatting.

.
. <FilesMatch “.(eot|font.css|otf|ttc|ttf|woff)$”>
. Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin ""
.
.
.
.
. RewriteEngine On
.
…# The below two lines will take a REQUEST_URI like /directory./foobar.php and set the variable BASE to /directory/
. #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}::$1 ^(.?/)(.)::\2$
. #RewriteRule ^(.)$ - [E=BASE:%1]
.
. RewriteBase /
. RewriteCond $0#%{REQUEST_URI} ([^#])#(.)\1$
. RewriteRule ^.$ - [E=BASE:%2]
.
. RewriteRule ^(.)$ - [E=QS:mod_rewrite=on]
.
. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
. RewriteRule ^([^/.])-single.php$ %{ENV:BASE}single.php?%{ENV:QS}&id=$1 [QSA,L]
.
. # Attempt to load dynamic resources if file doesn’t exist
. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
. RewriteRule ^([^/.]).(css|js|gif|png|jpg)$ %{ENV:BASE}index.php?%{ENV:QS}&extension=$2&name=$1 [QSA,L]
.
. #RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !mod_rewrite=on
. #RewriteRule ^index.php$ %{ENV:BASE}index.php?%{ENV:QS} [QSA,L]
.
. RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !mod_rewrite=on
. RewriteRule ^mobile.php$ %{ENV:BASE}mobile.php?%{ENV:QS} [QSA,L]
.
. RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !mod_rewrite=on
. RewriteRule ^(.)download.php %{ENV:BASE}download.php?%{ENV:QS} [QSA,L]
.
. # Address is /
. RewriteRule ^$ %{ENV:BASE}index.php?%{ENV:QS} [QSA,L]
.
. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
. RewriteRule ^(.)$ %{ENV:BASE}index.php?%{ENV:QS}&page=$1 [QSA,L]
.
.
.

#11

if you surround the code with three backticks (```) then the missing code should show up.
See this for more:

#12

I would try with following and have it before the Backlight code:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteRule ^gallery/TBOI/$ /ireland/? [R=301,L]
#13

Thanks, Daniel. Unfortunately, that does work for me either. I get the same result.

Do you know what should be in the .htaccess in the /gallery directory?

#14

Did you try to redirect it directly to the target https://www.bretculp.com/gallery/ireland-photo-gallery/?

#15

Thanks for your help, Daniel, but it’s still not working.