Paying 1$ for a little htaccess 301 redirection help !

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  1. #1
    i need to change all urls in one of my sites and i dont want to loose search engines traffic , i want to know how to do this exactly

    old files :
    site.com/page1-01.htm . (01 is a variable)
    site.com/page2-02.htm
    site.com/page3-03.htm etc ....
    To :
    site.com/category/page1
    site.com/category/page2
    site.com/category/page3 etc...

    Ps: ive tried this but it deosnt worked
    Redirect 301 /(.*)--(.*).htm http://www.site.com/category/$1

    reply here no pm's
    Thanks
     
    omaryo, May 1, 2009 IP
  2. gskesavan

    gskesavan Peon

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  3. omaryo

    omaryo Well-Known Member

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    #3
    you didnt understand , i m talking about using variables !! not only a single page
    anyone have an idea ?
     
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  4. michael scofield

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    #4
    you need just a folder redirection...say from site.com/filename.ext to site.com/foldername/filename.ext for tht similar set of urls ??
     
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  5. omaryo

    omaryo Well-Known Member

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    #5
    not exactly , i know how to change only the folder name , i want also change the name of the pages ! please read my first post .
     
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  6. omaryo

    omaryo Well-Known Member

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    #6
    Problem resolved after a lot of searches !
    thanks for participating
    mods : please close this thread
     
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    #7
    How about with just a single hyphen - instead of two -- ?
     
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  8. omaryo

    omaryo Well-Known Member

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    #8
    its the same thing , but i already resolved the problem by myself :)
    the answer is :

    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^(.*)--(.*).htm http://www.site.com/category/$1 [R=301]
     
    omaryo, May 2, 2009 IP