Redirection problems with site re-organization

[LeeU]

I'll try to make this as easy as I can. Up until recently, I had a Web site which used the address "http://www.shamar.org/emet/". Below that were a few directories. I recently obtained a domain name and set it up as an addon domain which pointed to that directory. I also set up a redirection in the .htaccess file for "shamar.org". I had thought that I could just put the following in the file and that would be enough:

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redirect 301 /emet http://www.emetnews.org

Well, for some reason, it wasn't, I had to add additional redirects (see below). Now, I am getting errors that leave out the directory I redirected to. For instance, I had a file with the path:

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http://www.shamar.org/emet/analysis/greatlie.php

Now, for some reason, I am getting errors that point to non-existent files at (and all the other sub-directories):

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http://www.shamar.org/analysis/greatlie.php

The code above should be redirecting it. Below is my .htaccess file. Any ideas of what is happening?

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redirect 301 /emet http://www.emetnews.org
redirect 301 /emet/analysis/ http://www.emetnews.org/analysis/
redirect 301 /emet/documents/ http://www.emetnews.org/documents/
redirect 301 /emet/views/ http://www.emetnews.org/views/

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^current\.php$ http://www.emetnews.org/current.php
RewriteRule ^current\.htm$ http://www.emetnews.org/current.php

RewriteBase  /
RewriteRule   ^(.*)\.htm$              $1      [C,E=WasHTML:yes]
RewriteCond   %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule   ^(.*)$ $1.php                   [S=1,R]
RewriteCond   %{ENV:WasHTML}            ^yes$
RewriteRule   ^(.*)$ $1.htm

AddType text/html .html .htm

IndexIgnore *

RewriteRule ^weblog/?(.*)$ /cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/$1

<Files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>

AddHandler server-parsed .html .htm

ErrorDocument 400 /errorpage.php
ErrorDocument 401 /errorpage.php
ErrorDocument 403 /errorpage.php
ErrorDocument 404 /errorpage.php
ErrorDocument 500 /errorpage.php

<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

<Files php.ini>
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>

# SetEnv TZ America/Miami
SetEnv TZ EST5EDT

[richardk]

You're getting 404 errors in your error log?

Try removing the redirects and using this:

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RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^emet(/(.*))?$       http://www.emetnews.org/$2          [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^current\.(php|htm)$ http://www.emetnews.org/current.php [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/.+)\.htm$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%1.php -f
RewriteRule \.htm$ %1.php [R,L]

RewriteRule ^weblog(/.*)$ /cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi$1 [QSA,L]

You might want to make the 302 redirect ([R,L]) into a 301 redirect ([R=301,L]).

[LeeU]

It didn't work work and, in some cases, it didn't forward it. I added

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Options +FollowSymLinks

and my code (pertinent part) now looks like this:

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Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

redirect 301 /emet http://www.emetnews.org
RewriteRule ^current\.php$ http://www.emetnews.org/current.php
RewriteRule ^current\.htm$ http://www.emetnews.org/current.php

RewriteBase  /
RewriteRule   ^(.*)\.htm$              $1      [C,E=WasHTML:yes]
RewriteCond   %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule   ^(.*)$ $1.php                   [S=1,R]
RewriteCond   %{ENV:WasHTML}            ^yes$
RewriteRule   ^(.*)$ $1.htm

RewriteRule ^weblog/?(.*)$ /cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/$1


However, I'm still getting 404's. just as before. The IP is generally from search engines (they have been hitting me hard the last few days).

[richardk]

So it's not the Redirects that are wrong, it's just that there are some incorrect links that bots are following. Or do you logs show that the redirects are redirecting to the wrong place?

Try

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Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?shamar\.org$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/emet{REQUEST_URI} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/emet{REQUEST_URI} -d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.emetnews.org/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^emet(/(.*))?$       http://www.emetnews.org/$2          [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^current\.(php|htm)$ http://www.emetnews.org/current.php [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/.+\.)htm$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%1php -f
RewriteRule \.htm$ %1php [R,L]

RewriteRule ^weblog(/.*)?$ /cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi$1 [QSA,L]

[LeeU]

The redirects seem to work fine when the address is as stated in the .htaccess file. However, I am getting errors that are eliminating the "/emet/" directory, which, of course, do not redirect and cause an error. For instance, entering the URL: "http://shamar.org/emet/analysis/the_true_leaders.php" redirects to "http://www.emetnews.org/analysis/the_true_leaders.php", as it should. However, I am getting errors that give the following directory (notice that the "/emet" portion is missing): "http://shamar.org/analysis/the_true_leaders.php".

I have no idea where this is coming from. It doesn't seem to make sense. I have never used that URL. I have checked my sitemap files that I recently updated (that Goggle/Yahoo use) and they're not in there either.

BTW, I haven't tried the last code you gave me yet. Do you think it will make a difference in regards to this problem?

[richardk]

BTW, I haven't tried the last code you gave me yet. Do you think it will make a difference in regards to this problem?

Yes, the first (big) rule should redirect it to the right place. If the requested URL doesn't exist, but it does exist in the /emet directory it will redirect to the emet domain.

[LeeU]

O.k., I'll upload it and see what happens. Thanks.

[LeeU]

Ooops. Well, I loaded it and it won't redirect to the emetnews.org domain when the following is entered:

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http://www.shamar.org/emet/

(I reloaded the previous one for now.) Any suggestions?

[richardk]

Just that URL?

It should:

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RewriteRule ^emet(/(.*))?$ http://www.emetnews.org/$2 [R=301,L]

You could try adding the Redirect to it. Or

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Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

redirect 301 /emet http://www.emetnews.org
RewriteRule ^current\.php$ http://www.emetnews.org/current.php
RewriteRule ^current\.htm$ http://www.emetnews.org/current.php

RewriteBase  /

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?shamar\.org$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/emet{REQUEST_URI} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/emet{REQUEST_URI} -d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.emetnews.org/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteRule   ^(.*)\.htm$              $1      [C,E=WasHTML:yes]
RewriteCond   %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule   ^(.*)$ $1.php                   [S=1,R]
RewriteCond   %{ENV:WasHTML}            ^yes$
RewriteRule   ^(.*)$ $1.htm

RewriteRule ^weblog/?(.*)$ /cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/$1

[LeeU]

For some reason, either yours or mine, if I use the URL: "http://www.shamar.org/emet/index.htm", it goes to "http://www.shamar.org/index.php", completely removing the "/emet" directory in the link.

However, if I leave off the file name, i.e. "http://www.shamar.org/emet/", it does redirect.