Clues for the Clueless
Let’s say you want to redirect www.yourdomain.com to yourdomain.com for SEO reasons. The best way to accomplish this is in your apache config file. Sure, you can use .htaccess, but Apache will have to literally open the file for every request. Better performance to just do it in the httpd.conf file. Here’s an example of [...]
Let’s say you have an old site which used to have a lot of random question marks and values in the url which you no longer need. If you are using php, your site very well may load these pages with a 200OK, possibly creating duplicate content issues. Here’s a .htaccess snippit to strip any [...]
Say you have an odd URL pattern which you want to get a 404 reply before it hits your CMS. Add this to your .htaccess file, and obviously replace the word something with your pattern. The line containing [OR] can be duplicated or deleted depending on if you have multiple patterns, or a single pattern. [...]
RedirectMatch 301 /places/international_and_uk_places/(.*) http://example.com/places/uk/$1 RedirectMatch 301 /places/international_and_uk_places.html http://example.com/places/uk.html It was decided that the ridiculously long category name “international_and_uk_places” needed to be renamed to ‘uk’ for a much shorter URL slug. The process would change a few hundred urls within that category, and they were all highly indexed in Google. Rather than waiting for Google to [...]