Folder to domain rewrite + 301’s

[indian]

Hello… struggling with this… If anyone can point me in the right direction it would make me a happy guy.

what im trying to do is this-

I have a wordpress website on my server like this:

mydomain.com/html/wordpress/

my old website has good SEO scores and gets a decent amount of traffic. I’d like to have my wordpress folder look like its located in the root of mydomain.com and not show anything of the /HTML or /wordpress stuff. Unfortunately Im having trouble doing this. Does anyone have a good tip on how to fix this with .htaccess?

I also need to do 301 redirects to new wordpress pages from a dozen or so URLs that exist in mydomain/html

any helps is greatly appreciated

[clokey2k]

See: Migrating WordPress from Subdomain
This was brought up in the past. The advise I gave in this comment seemed to work the best.

If you don’t fancy reading that it does directly reference: http://askwpgirl.com/how-do-i-move-wordpress-from-a-subdirectory-to-the-root-directory/

Redirects just work afterwards due to how WordPress now deals with querys.

Jump in, make the change – if it doesn’t work, change back! If the site content is worth a visit your search ratings will soon return IMO.

[indian]

thanks for the links i’ll check ’em out. the old site is built entirely in tables with no CMS and horrible URLS etc etc… the new site is a whole ‘nother world for these people

thanks again

[clokey2k]

Ooh I misinterpreted part of your question.

The instructions will allow you to tidy the WordPress URL but you’ll have to find some good tutorials to redirect the old (non-wordpress) URLs. .htaccess might be complicated, but you could place a few php files in the place of the old URLs with a redirect header to the correct post? i.e. ‘/mad-contact-url-that-sux.php’ with a redirect to ‘/contact/’

http://php.net/manual/en/function.header.php – may help.

Again, if the pages are worth it and the mark-up is good people (and therefore Google) will find them!

[indian]

I’ve been trying to add the 301 redirects to my site.. I’m finding that my server appears to be deleting my .htaccess file every time I add to it my directory. Is there an obvious reason for this?

[indian]

is there a difference between RedirectMatch 301 and Redirect 301?

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