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forward domain name to particular page?

I;ve got a doman alias setup for one of my Wordpress sites and i'm trying to forward that particular domain to a page. The 2 domains are - www.alias.com www.actual.com When people use the ...
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Htaccess redirect for Wordpress groups [closed]

I want to redirect http://www.mydomain.com/group/keyword/ to http://www.mydomain.com/portfolio/keyword/ Any help would be greatly appreciated :)
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Redirect registration=disabled page

I need users who land on this page... http://subdomain.example.com/temp/wp-login.php?registration=disabled To be redirected to http://subdomain.example.com/temp/register I am using multi-site so I ...
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3 blogs same installation, without WP MU

I've to create 3 blogs (different DOMAINS) on the same wordpress installation (I cannot use WP MU, unfortunately) so I came out with the idea that I could use categories, instead, so... every blog has ...
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Registration Fail Redirect Problem

We use two registration links allowing users to register for different roles: /wp-login.php?action=register&utype=subscriber /wp-login.php?action=register&utype=contributer The subscriber ...
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Can I redirect the http request towards an old folder to the homepage using .htaccess file? [closed]

I am in the following situation: I had an old blog that was made using Joomla (this blog was indexed well enough by search engines). Due to some problems I deleted it and moved the site over to ...
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Stripping queries on Wordpress using .htaccess

I recently moved my blog from Movable Type to Wordpress. My permalink structure is mywebsite/category_name/entryname.php Movable Type paginated by adding a query to the index page. For eg - ...
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Rewrite vs Redirect from ?p={ID}

WordPress does a 301 from http://example.com/?p=100 to http://example.com/post-title/, but I thought a URL rewrite was different from a redirect and therefore this wouldn't result in a 301. Can ...
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multisite htaccess 301 redirects

I've got a multisite sub-domain install with 3 sites on it. 2 of the sites use domain mapping. The main site (id=1) requires several 301's that are old pages from a previous structure such as: ...
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Redirect from one url to another. Qtranslate and search engine problem

I've changed my qtranslate configuration. I access to the english version now with: http://en.mydomain.com/news/this-is-a-post In search engines I have my pages indexed with this structure: ...
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redirect old pages by .htaccess

i want to redirect pages from www.sitename.com/sitename/pagename.html and www.sitemap.com/sitename/?page_id=213 to www.sitename.com/sitename/pagename how i can do that by using .haccess file i ...
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Wordpress multisite redirections

This will be kind of a long question, but I think I need to give you complete information in order for you to understand what is the issue about. Firstly, I setup a wordpress install, in my root ...
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Is Wordpress API visible from PHP file called in htaccess

I'm trying to add some rewriterules in the .htaccess file to deal with hotlinked images - specifically I want to add the URL from the post where the image appeared to the header location information ...
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Old blog/ and blog/feed/ URLs not working after moving blog to top-level via .htaccess

For a long time I served my blog from http://www.murrayc.com/blog/, with the wordpress installation in /home/murrayc/murrayc.com/blog/. Now I've moved it to http://www.murrayc.com/, without moving the ...
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Redirect entire website to a single page

I need to redirect a whole WordPress site to a single WordPress page. A sort of maintenance mode, but the redirect has to go to a published WordPress page. Unfortunately, the maintenance page I need ...
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What's the best way to manage a lot of 301 redirects in WordPress?

Currently my site has a lot of 301 redirects we are managing in our .htaccess file (several hundreds 301 redirects); however, I am wondering would it be better and more optimal I use a plugin such as ...
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Redirect from ip to domain

I want to prevent site to be accessible by ip. It could be accessible by only domain name, so I tried with htaccess trick. RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^mydomain\.com [NC] RewriteRule .? ...
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Htaccess redirect from '/%postname%.html' to '/%postname%'

I have a Drupal 5.x based travel review site which I'm moving over to Wordpress 3.x (same domain name). The Drupal site is structured like this: www.example.com/travel-guides (these are top-level ...
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How to disable cPanel temporary URL with redirect [closed]

My provider uses cPanel. I use the default WP htacces setup. cPanel has a temp. url which can not be disabled. When I call the temp. URL it redirects to the domain URL but with 302 code. I need ...
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WordPress on a subfolder but accessible from root

I've searched quite a lot without finding a solution. I have a wordpress blog in /_wp and something else in /other What I'm trying to is that every request gets redirected to the WordPress. Except ...
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Force redirect single.php to index

I want to make a force redirect for single.php to index so that it is never reachable by direct access (the site is built in a way that you retrieve all the content on the index page, still need to ...
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How to disable the default WordPress redirect to non-www URLs?

I am trying to redirect all non-www to www URLs in my WordPress MultiSite install. I am using a simple .htaccess rule like this: # Redirect non-www to www: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC] ...
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Index in root, wordpress in subdirectory

Okay I've googled this for hours...I installed wordpress to a subdirectory as a content management system, but I want my main index.php along with other files to remain in the root. What .htaccess ...
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A question about .htaccess

I'm redeveloping a site for a client. Their current site is written in .asp. I've rebuilt in WordPress as they need a CMS. We're repointing the DNS to our hosting environment. My question is - I ...
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Which is better: 301 Redirect in my .htaccess file or a plugin like Redirection?

Currently I am using 301 Redirects in my .htacess file to redirect old URLs to new URLs. Are there any performance benefits (i.e. site loading) o using a plugin like Redirection or should I just stick ...
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Need rewrite for URL with specific string

I need help with one redirect, unfortunately I don't have idea how to write this for Wordpress. Should be .htaccess redirect or function in functions.php? Noob I am, so please help :) OK, I have ...
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Cannot use Network Admin (Dashboard) on Multi-site after 301 www redirect

I have recently added the 301 redirect non-WWW to WWW on .htaccess for my current running blog multisite (Wordpress blog resides under "mysite.com/home/" directory), they seem to work fine after all ...
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How do I setup htaccess for 301 redirects, post Joomla to Wordpress migration?

I've almost completed the tedious task of migrating a relatively complex Joomla site over to Wordpress. The (more or less) final stage I am wishing to figure out is the 301 redirections. I've spent ...
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How do I put up a splash page and have all WordPress links redirect to this page?

I would like to put up a splash page and have all site links (posts, pages, etc.) to redirect to this splash. I know there are a number of ways to create a splash (i.e. page template in WordPress and ...
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Test site pages go to main site

I have a test site installed on www.mydomain.com/testsite. The problem I have is that if I type in the url www.mydomain.com/testsite/about I get redirected to www.mydomain.com/about. My page for my ...
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Comment author url link is wrong? How to change from authors/ to author/

I’m maintaining a rather simple blog where a small number of people are registered as administrators to write posts. When making a link to the authors URL in a posts meta data, I use the function ...
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Mass .htaccess URL Forwarding

I'm doing the migration of a site, from MovableType to WordPress. The website contains around 3500 posts and when I uploaded the information to the new version of the site, the links have been ...
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Auto 301 to full post permalink? (using /posts/%post_id%/%postname%)

I update my permalink structure to /post/%post_id%/%postname%, but if someone uses a URL like /post/1234 instead of the full URL of /post/1234/bingo-rulz, WordPress shows the post without giving a 301 ...
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How do I turn off 301 redirecting posts (not canonical)?

I noticed a strange behavior in WordPress where it automatically 301 redirects certain URL structures for posts. For example, I have a post entry for: mysite.com/999/about-us Then, you would think ...
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Redirection with a wildcard

I have put my wordpress installation liek these : http://www.mydomain.com/cms for the testing time, and time to implement thing in the database. Now i have switch the whole thing to : ...
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Passing variables through permalink structure

I have a WordPress page which is accessible via /accommodation/. What I want to be able to do is pass in a parameter using the URL - ie going to /accommodation/value1/ would load the same page as ...
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301 Redirect is not working as expected [closed]

Trying to set 301 redirect in .htaccess file and here is what i am trying to do RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^http://localhost/wordpress/$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ...
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Changes done to .htaccess are not getting reverted back

I am new to WordPress and playing around with it to get some idea about its working. I have done some changes to WordPress' .htaccess file to add some redirection and that worked perfectly fine. Now ...
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wordpress redirection chaos [closed]

I just posted this in the webmaster section before discovering this wordpress section, so sorry for the double post. :X I have a problem regarding redirection. It started out as I noticed, my ...
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Multisite or redirect. Which way to go? [closed]

Hello I would like to split a Wordpress site in 2. one category of pages will be shown on: www.domain1.com and the other category of pages will be show on www.domain2.com. On the website hosting I ...
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301 Redirects for Changed Permalink Structure & Category Base

I'm redeveloping a site on a fresh WP install. The old site had the following permalink structure: domain.com/CATEGORY/POSTNAME/ The new site has the following permalink structure: ...
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How to use different domains for different blogs hosted in the same host in subdomains with .htaccess

Background i have a website running on wordpress and all its files are located in public_html of my host. Within it i created a sub domain "phantomomaga" and redirected an other domain to that sub ...
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Wordpress permalink, stop redirection

I'm having some hard-time with with WordPress permalinks. WordPress 3.1 seems to force url redirection, ex: This is the correct post url: http://www.mysite.com/test/1/mypost.html If I go to any of ...
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Can Wordpress redirect to a “similar page” in case of 404 error

This stuff is driving me nuts. The following url does NOT exist and should return a 404: http://www.easyjob.net/resume/ However, if I try to access it, I get a 301 to ...
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How do I skip wordpress's 404 handling and redirect all 404 errors for static files to 404.html?

How do I skip wordpress's 404 handling and redirect all 404 errors for static files to 404.html? I read and it seems its not possible when using permalinks? The objective is to reduce the server ...
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Redirect wrong links Wordpress

I am using the following permalinks structure: /%postname%/ and I also have some multi-page posts that look like /%postname%/2. The problem is I see a lot of 404 errors in webmaster tools for urls ...
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If I change permalink structures, can I use htaccess to permanantly redirect links?

Ive got some super old links that have a lot of SEO juice and I dont want to lose that if I change permalink structure. This is partly due to the older version of WP i have (2.1) I want to use post ...
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Redirecting all old links from previous EE site to new WP site in one go?

I'm about to migrate from an old Expression Engine website to a new WordPress site on the same domain. Is there anything I should be aware of with respects to redirecting old links? The old site is ...
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Wordpress redirection problem after moving to a new server?

I've created a site using wordpress and i moved that from localhost to new server. The steps i've followed is just got backup of old db from localhost and uploaded them to the new server. Changed the ...
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htaccess redirect dynamic posts

Probably not the correct fora to ask, but.. Also probably a simple question.. We are changing our site to Wordpress, and need to redirect old posts. Previously structure: ...

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