XF 1.2 URL routing help

[dvsDave]

Old URL:

http://www.controlbooth.com/wiki/Safety

Current URL

http://www.controlbooth.com/wiki/?title=Safety

Google is screaming bloody murder that the old URL's aren't working. The question I have is, would it be better to use route filters to point google in the right direction, or to use mod rewrite to make the new URL's look like the old ones?

 

[Jeremy]

Use a mod rewrite to permanently redirect to the new URL.

 

[dvsDave]

crud. Regex/mod rewrite is not my forte.

I have no idea how take an already canonical URL and make it un-canonical.

 

[Jeremy]

If @Jake Bunce doesn't answer you by the time I get back on a computer I'll try to get it for you. It's a matter of RegEx.

 

[dvsDave]

Sigh... Here's what I've got, but I know it's not working:

RewriteRule /wiki/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)$  wiki/?title=$1 [NC,R=301]

 

[dvsDave]

thanks @Jeremy ! (I still start to type your old username before I remember that you changed it)

 

[Jeremy]

I expect a lot of people do. I'm slightly distracted, but I don't want to write RegEx without my regexpal.com up to see how it'll interact.

 

[dvsDave]

I've been testing my attempts on http://htaccess.madewithlove.be/ and haven't actually run it in production yet.

 

[Jake Bunce]

Old URL:

http://www.controlbooth.com/wiki/Safety

Current URL

http://www.controlbooth.com/wiki/?title=Safety

Google is screaming bloody murder that the old URL's aren't working. The question I have is, would it be better to use route filters to point google in the right direction, or to use mod rewrite to make the new URL's look like the old ones?

Put this at the top of the .htaccess file in your web root:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^wiki/(.+)$ /wiki/?title=$1 [R=301,L]

That should do it.

 

[dvsDave]

Put this at the top of the .htaccess file in your web root:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^wiki/(.+)$ /wiki/?title=$1 [R=301,L]

That should do it.

That checks out! Thanks much!!