301 for all URLS in forum

Discussion in 'Apache' started by mark_s, May 10, 2008.

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    Currently my forum is /talk/topic.html but I will be changing to /forum/topic.html... is there something I can put in the htaccess file that means when I have made this change, when google goes to the old urls (thousands of them) it will automatially 301 to the new location>
     
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    RedirectMatch 301 ^/talk/(.+)$ http://site.com/forum/$1
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    Will that redirect them to the forum home page or still take them to the correct thread? I need the latter.
     
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