Redirect all links form a category to new links on new category

Question

hi i just modify a category link from domain.com/test/ to domain.com/demo/ all my post have now the new url domain.com/demo/post-name and now i want to redirect all 1000 links from which includes subcategoryes and post.. domain.com/test/post-name to domain.com/demo/post-name domain.com/test/post-name to domain.com/demo/post-name1 domain.com/test/post-name to domain.com/demo/post-name2 ...... domain.com/test/post-name999 to domain.com/demo/post-name999 domain.com/test/post-name1000 to domain.com/demo/post-name1000

is an easy way to make this redirect? or i have to make it one by one?

Answer 1

Using Apache

I'd go with an .htaccess rule

RewriteRule ^test/(.*) http://www.example.com/demo/$1 [R=301,L]

so http://www.example.com/test/page would now go to http://www.example.com/demo/page and the 301 redirect would make it permanent

make sure you put your rewrite rule after these rules

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

Using Nginx

in the server block

server {
  . . .
  rewrite ^/test/(.*) http://www.example.com/demo/$1 permanent;
  . . .
}

Answer 2

Try this plugin : redirection. This will allow you to implement 301 redirect with a with a regular expression.

Also refer this thread