i recently changed my shopping cart and moved from a non wordpress shopping cart software to wordpress + shopp plugin. originally, links to different categories of my site looked like this: http://www.pooltees.com/products.php?cat=27 or http://www.pooltees.com/products.php?cat=28 not they look like this: http://www.pooltees.com/shop/category/mens/ or http://www.pooltees.com/shop/category/womens/ I'm trying to get my htaccess file to correctly redirect visitors to the new page when they find the old link in a google search. Installed these two lines of code: RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^products.php?cat=27$ [NC] RewriteRule ^/products.php$ http://pooltees.com/shop/category/chicks/ [R=301,L] Code (markup): into the htaccess file, but that doesnt seem to have worked. here's a look at the entirety of the htaccess file: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On # Redirect my old pages RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^products.php?cat=27$ [NC] RewriteRule ^/products.php$ /shop/category/chicks/ [R=301,L] # Redirect any of my old images RewriteRule ^.*shop/images/(\d+)/?\??(.*)$ /wp-content/plugins/shopp/core/image.php?siid=$1&$2 [QSA,L] </IfModule> # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress Code (markup): what am i doing wrong? please advise. thanks in advance.
When it comes to rewrites, I don't know diddly. But I do love the Shopp plugin and have a couple of licenses. Did you try the Shopp forum yet? I am sure they may have a resolution for you already. Also, how many categories do you need to rewrite? If there are not too many, then a cat to cat rewrite rule can be applied.
I have many categories and many pages I need to redirect. I looked through the shopp forums but they weren't any help. Can someone please advise? Thanks.
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