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finally fixed that last problem. thanks for your tips and help, nik, olaf and tim!

finally fixed that last problem. thanks for your tips and help, nik, olaf and tim!

you're welcome

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hi. i recently made a major change in my directory structure. a lot of visitors coming from the search engines just get directed to my 404 page.

is there a dynamic way for a visitor going to a non-existent page like
articleomatic.freehostia.com/translate/fr/?/Games/PoP_Rival_Swords_Walkthrough.php3
to be redirected to the correct page,
articleomatic.freehostia.com/ylang/fr/Games/PoP_Rival_Swords_Walkthrough.php3
instead?

please note that there are a lot of pages, more than a thousand.

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For the exact example you can redirect using this code in your /translate/fr/index.php file :

if ( isset( $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] ) ){
 header ( 'HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently' );
 header ( 'Location: http://articleomatic.freehostia.com/ylang/fr' . $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] );
 exit;
}
?>

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thank you Nikolas. ill implement it asap. youre an "income saver"!!!

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thanks Nik. it worked like a breeze! so you knew about that code im using from digitalpoint huh?

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No I don't, but I know a few things about coding

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anyway, is there a way of finding out the target url from the search engines?

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The 500 error should be something in the .htaccess file

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ive been testing and testing and i think its not happening anymore (500 error). thanks again.

off topic: when will you start with the military service?

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In two days I'm gone....

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one more thing, i renamed a couple of my directories because i made a mistake with their names before and i wish to correct it because it is giving me problems with the translation engine. i tried using your script to redirect from the old ones to the new but its not working. im getting a 404. here is an example of one of the old directories. please notice that i used spaces between words:

articleomatic.freehostia.com/10 Newest Articles/Medical_Assistance_Training.php

i want to rename them using "-" between words:

articleomatic.freehostia.com/10-Newest-Articles/Medical_Assistance_Training.php

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i think i will try htaccess first.

Code:

Redirect permanent /old-directory http://www.your-domain.com/new-directory

if anyone of you guys have a better way, please let me know. thanks!



update: nope, the above didnt work for me. but this did:

Code:

# This line enables Apache's Rewrite Engine; it is required for the following lines
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase   /

RewriteRule (.*) http://www.your-domain.com/new-directory/$1 [R=301,L]

this may sound good to you but wont google penalise your website for duplicate content?

I am not expert in technical terms but look wise when I opened your website all attention gone to that dark red logo and after that there is nothing to impress as per look wise. Very boring I must say and normal visitor wont stand for few minutes.

But wait ... you have got good alexa ranking ... how did you get that one

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