I have a very peculiar problem. Formerly, I was using Wordpress and I have a link that has a path of http://www.acetraining.com.sg/index.php/contact-us/.
I have just reverted the website to a non-Wordpress and have a static link of http://www.acetraining.com.sg/contact_us.html. How is it possible for me to redirect the old path to this new path? I already have a redirector script and I know I have to place this code :
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://example.com/" />
to the head region of a html page. What I have done is that I've created an index.php as a folder name and another contact-us as a subfolder and then I created an index.html file within that but it does not work at all.
Any suggestions anyone?
Good morning!
I think that using meta tag for redirection will not good for your SEO. As it is a definite URL moving, I suggest you the header 301 (Redirect Permanent). You can use this by creating a .htaccess file in public_html (or your website public root directory) and put on something like this :
RedirectPermanent /index.php/contact-us/ http://www.acetraining.com.sg/contact_us.html
Hope this may help you.
If you don't have a .htaccess file in your server root!
Create an empty text file using a text editor such as notepad, and save it as htaccess.txt and add the code blow.
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
# Redirect old file path to new file path
Redirect index.php/contact-us http://www.acetraining.com.sg/contact_us.html
NOTE: The reason you should save the file as htaccess.txt is because many operating systems and FTP applications are unable to read or view .htaccess files by default. Once uploaded to the server you can rename the file to .htaccess
hopefully it will fix the redirection for you.