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RiaanBotha
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Posted: 01 October 2008 at 7:43am \| IP Logged

Hi,

Our site, www.journeys2africa.com is using ISAPI-Rewrite at the moment.

Its been working great and we have over 7000 pages indexed in Google. Problem is that we have a new website and want to redirect the old URL's to the new ones. After that, the new ones need to be rewritten to a more friendly structure.

The old ID's are no more either, I do however have a file containing the old and new id's with product names.

EG:

Old URL:
http://www.journeys2africa.com/j2a/accommodation/ID~362~accom-estdetail.cfm

New URL:
http://www.journeys2africa.com/default/index.cfm/hotels-lodges/establishment-details/?AccommodationID=1&ServiceType=AC

New URL rewritten:
http://www.journeys2africa.com/hotels-lodges/Hermanus/Abalone-Guest-Lodge

This all seems very daunting...can anyone give me an idea where to start?

Edited by RiaanBotha - 01 October 2008 at 7:46am

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Posted: 01 October 2008 at 8:36am \| IP Logged

Hi,
You can try map-files feature.
Here is an example for you:

Code:

RewriteMap lower int:tolower 

# If it an old URL, then we must redirect it to a new

RewriteMap OldMap txt:oldmap.txt 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*) 

RewriteCond ${OldMap:${lower:%1}|NOT_FOUND} !NOT_FOUND 

RewriteRule .? ${OldMap:${lower:%1}} [NC,R=301]

# Rewriting a new URL

RewriteMap NewMap txt:newmap.txt 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*) 

RewriteCond ${NewMap:${lower:%1}|NOT_FOUND} !NOT_FOUND 

RewriteRule .? ${NewMap:${lower:%1}} [NC,L]

oldmap.txt:

Code:

/j2a/accommodation/ID~362~accom-estdetail.cfm /hotels-lodges/Hermanus/Abalone-Guest-Lodge

newmap.txt:

Code:

/hotels-lodges/Hermanus/Abalone-Guest-Lodge /default/index.cfm/hotels-lodges/establishment-details/?AccommodationID=1&ServiceType=AC

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Posted: 01 October 2008 at 8:50am \| IP Logged

Will Try this out and let you know. Thanks !

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Posted: 06 October 2008 at 8:25am \| IP Logged

Hi,

I upgraded to ISAPI Rewrite 3, used the above example in the .htaccess file and created oldmap and newmap as suggested.

I am getting the following errors:
Errors.txt

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Posted: 06 October 2008 at 9:37am \| IP Logged

Hi Riaan,
Please try this:

Code:

# If it an old URL, then we must redirect it to a new 

RewriteMap OldMap txt:oldmap.txt 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*) 

RewriteCond ${OldMap:%1|NOT_FOUND} !NOT_FOUND [NC]

RewriteRule .? ${OldMap:%1} [NC,R=301] 

# Rewriting a new URL 

RewriteMap NewMap txt:newmap.txt 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*) 

RewriteCond ${NewMap:%1|NOT_FOUND} !NOT_FOUND [NC] 

RewriteRule .? ${NewMap:%1} [NC,L]

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Posted: 07 October 2008 at 4:24am \| IP Logged

Whoowee!

Thanx a million! Works beautifully.

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Posted: 07 October 2008 at 11:37am \| IP Logged

Hi Vyacheslav,

The old pages are now redirecting to the new, pretty URL's, but the new content needs to be redirected aswell.

I have created another map-file and used your example as follows:

Code:

# If it an old URL, then we must redirect it to a new
RewriteMap OldMap txt:C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/sava/default/oldmap.txt
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)
RewriteCond ${OldMap:%1|NOT_FOUND} !NOT_FOUND [NC]
RewriteRule .? ${OldMap:%1} [NC,R=301]

# If it an Ugly-New URL, then we must redirect it to a Pretty URL
RewriteMap prettymap txt:C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/sava/default/prettymap.txt
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)
RewriteCond ${prettyMap:%1|NOT_FOUND} !NOT_FOUND [NC]
RewriteRule .? ${prettyMap:%1} [NC,R=301]

# Rewriting a new URL
RewriteMap NewMap txt:C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/sava/default/newmap.txt
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)
RewriteCond ${NewMap:%1|NOT_FOUND} !NOT_FOUND [NC]
RewriteRule .? ${NewMap:%1} [NC,L]

I am getting these errors:
errors.txt

It seems to be cutting the URL off at the questionmark.

Thanks
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Posted: 08 October 2008 at 3:01am \| IP Logged

Hi Riaan,
Please try this:

Code:

# If it an old URL, then we must redirect it to a new

RewriteMap OldMap txt:C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/sava/default/oldmap.txt

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)

RewriteCond ${OldMap:%1|NOT_FOUND} !NOT_FOUND [NC]

RewriteRule .? ${OldMap:%1} [NC,R=301]

# If it an Ugly-New URL, then we must redirect it to a Pretty URL

RewriteMap prettyMap txt:C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/sava/default/prettymap.txt

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (.*)

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)

RewriteCond ${prettyMap:%1\?%2|NOT_FOUND} !NOT_FOUND [NC]

RewriteRule .? ${prettyMap:%1\?%2} [NC,R=301]

# Rewriting a new URL

RewriteMap NewMap txt:C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/sava/default/newmap.txt

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)

RewriteCond ${NewMap:%1|NOT_FOUND} !NOT_FOUND [NC]

RewriteRule .? ${NewMap:%1} [NC,L]

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Posted: 13 October 2008 at 9:05am \| IP Logged

Hi again,

I used the above code, but it does not work yet. I tried playing around with it myself, but only managed to confuse the whole site.

I swapped "RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (.*) " and "RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)" around and it almost worked but added the Query string onto the end of the rewritten URL.

Here are the errors I am getting with the code you supplied last.

Errors.txt

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Posted: 14 October 2008 at 8:19am \| IP Logged

Hi,
Excuse me, it's my mistake. Yes, you are right, these conditions must be swapped.

Please try these rules:

Code:

# If it an old URL, then we must redirect it to a new

RewriteMap OldMap txt:C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/sava/default/oldmap.txt

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)

RewriteCond ${OldMap:%1|NOT_FOUND} !NOT_FOUND [NC]

RewriteRule .? ${OldMap:%1} [NC,R=301]

# If it an Ugly-New URL, then we must redirect it to a Pretty URL

RewriteMap prettyMap txt:C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/sava/default/prettymap.txt

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (.*)

RewriteCond ${prettyMap:%1\?%2|NOT_FOUND} !NOT_FOUND [NC]

RewriteRule .? ${prettyMap:%1\?%2}? [NC,R=301]

# Rewriting a new URL

RewriteMap NewMap txt:C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/sava/default/newmap.txt

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)

RewriteCond ${NewMap:%1|NOT_FOUND} !NOT_FOUND [NC]

RewriteRule .? ${NewMap:%1} [NC,L]

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Posted: 07 November 2008 at 10:36am \| IP Logged

HI!

Our site is live and its awesome, thanks. Still have a lot of work to do, but I'm very proud of it so far.

I have noticed that the map is case sensitive.

...ID~345... will be redirected but not ...id~345...

Here is the original code:

Code:

# If it an old URL, then we must redirect it to a new 
RewriteMap OldMap txt:C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/sava/default/oldmap.txt 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)
RewriteCond ${OldMap:%1|NOT_FOUND} !NOT_FOUND [NC] 
RewriteRule .? ${OldMap:%1} [NC,R=301] 

And here is the modified code I wrote that is not working:

Code:

# If it an old URL, then we must redirect it to a new 
RewriteMap OldMap txt:C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/sava/default/oldmap.txt 
RewriteMap lower int:tolower
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)
RewriteCond ${OldMap:%{lower:%1}|NOT_FOUND} !NOT_FOUND [NC] 
RewriteRule .? ${OldMap:%{lower:%1}} [NC,R=301] 

Just when I thought I sort of understood this stuff.
Was I at least on the right track?

Thanks
Riaan

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Posted: 10 November 2008 at 2:46am \| IP Logged

In addition to your corrections (which I have fixed a bit below) you should change all records in your map file to lower case.

RewriteMap OldMap txt:C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/sava/default/oldmap.txt
RewriteMap lower int:tolower
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)
RewriteCond ${OldMap:${lower:%1}|NOT_FOUND} !NOT_FOUND [NC]
RewriteRule .? ${OldMap:${lower:%1}} [NC,R=301]

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