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I've changed our "category base" in WP settings from the default "category" to "customname".

Now there are 404 errors to links containing the old category slug eg. mysite.com/category/names

What do I enter in .htaccss to 301 redirect

mysite.com/category/xxx

to

mysite.com/customname/xxx

Thanks,

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Htaccess is your friend in this case. You can create 301 form your old category base to the new like so:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^old_dir/(.*) http://www.example.com/new_dir/$1 [R=301,L]

Change old_dir to category example.com to your domain and new_dir to your custom name.

Hope this helps. Ohad.

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RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^old_dir/(.*) http://www.example.com/new_dir/$1 [R=301,L]

This is working fine for me.

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Ok by Googling (which I was doing for hours before posting here) I found the answer! But this time I googled the beginning part of your suggested rewrite rule:

RewriteRule ^olddir/

which resulted in finding the answer here which is:

RewriteRule ^olddir/?(.*)$ newdir/$1 [R=301,L]

hope this helps someone else. Now just need to find the rewrite rule for: How to? Redirect /category/sci-fi/ to /category/scifi/?

thx

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  • the same way. RewriteRule ^sci-fi/?(.*)$ scifi/$1 [R=301,L] – Bainternet Feb 6 '11 at 11:53
  • Why did you vote down my answer? No it's not the same way because the URL is site.com/category/scifi NOT site.com/scifi. – Hayden Feb 6 '11 at 12:17
  • what???? whats RewriteRule ^sci-fi/?(.*)$ scifi/$1 [R=301,L] got to do withthe vote down? its for the answer with the same code as mine 3 minutes after i posted it. sorry but if you feel that bad edit your answer and i'll remove the vote – Bainternet Feb 6 '11 at 12:43
  • I'm only trying to help you buddy. – Bainternet Feb 6 '11 at 12:44
  • The code you posted dumped everything to ONE absolute location. Thus why I searched and found the correct code that changes the /dir/ page of the url ONLY and so posted I it and source. Thus, I see no reason to vote down my answer when the code I posted does something different. – Hayden Feb 6 '11 at 12:58

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