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 Topic: Issue setting up single page redirects in Virtual Host |
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MelB
Joined: 13 Oct 2021
Posts: 3
Location: Ireland
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 Posted: Fri 04 Feb '22 14:25 Post subject: Issue setting up single page redirects in Virtual Host |
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Hi there,
Apologies for asking what I imagine is such a simple question but I've been having trouble with redirects on the Virtual Host, as I'm trying to ensure a persistent experience despite single page name changes.
Yesterday I deployed a new redesign to replace a current website to a new server. Built with VueJS, Blade, PHP and CockpitCMS. Same URL, new design and content.
However, some URLs from the old website lead to a 404 on the new one as the content has changed. I need to redirect these old URLs to either the homepage or an existing related page on the site.
I want to add these redirects to the Virtual Hosts and not create a .htaccess like a lot of people recommend online, as all my config is in the .conf file for this website.
For example, on the old site we may have a URL like website.co.uk/claims and I want to redirect that to website.co.uk/contact. I've tried the following in the Virtual Hosts:
| Code: | <VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName website.co.uk
DocumentRoot /var/www/website/htdocs/public
Redirect permanent /claims /contact |
Or | Code: | | Redirect permanent /claims https://www.website.co.uk/contact |
Or | Code: | | Redirect 301 https://website.co.uk/claims https://website.co.uk/contact |
I test and reload the server but it still sends to a 404 - I'm just not sure where I'm going wrong, although I imagine it's very simple 
Any pointers would be really appreciated, please let me know if I've let out any useful information  thank you in advance |
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tangent
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Joined: 16 Aug 2020
Posts: 312
Location: UK
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| Posted: Fri 04 Feb '22 21:58 Post subject: |
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I can see why you're confused.
In practice, the Redirect directive only seems to replace the first URL path string with the second string, leaving any remaining path unchanged. So http://hostname/claims/xyz gets redirected to http://hostname/contact/xyz. This may not be what you want, and may be the cause of your 404 errors.
Suggest you try RedirectMatch instead, discarding the remaining path of the request URL from the redirect target, e.g.
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RedirectMatch permanent "/\bclaims\b(.*)" "/contact"
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Use browser devtools (shift + ctrl + I) to check what response location headers are actually received by the browser. |
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