Redirect 301 and Friendly URLs

[David Smart]

I'm planning on moving my items from having the default category as home to the category they are in

this would change the friendly url from:

http://www.domain.com/X-product.html

to

http://www.domain.com/category/X-product.html

So I put a Redirect 301 rule in my .htaccess as follows
Redirect 301 /X-product.html http://www.domain.com/category/X-product.html

But that actually redirects as follows:

http://www.domain.com/category/X-product.html?id_product=X

Anyone knows why this happens, and how to stop it?

Thanks!

[tomerg3]

Check out http://www.prestashop.com/forums/viewthread/39736/

[bartman]

Are you using the same domain name, ?

if so you do not need to have the domain name in the redirect

I have just upgraded from a seven year old oscommerce install and have included loads or redirects in my .htaccess file

example below

redirect 301 /-c-24.html /25-tritium-glow-rings
redirect 301 /blue-year-glow-sticks-tritium-keyrings-glowring-p-36.html /tritium-glow-rings/36-nite-tritium-glow-ring-blue.html
redirect 301 /glow-dark-plastic-whistles-p-143.html /glow-in-the-dark-whistles/143-12-glow-in-the-dark-plastic-whistles.html

but we do have tomerg3's duplicat url redirect installed on the domain

regards


chris

[David Smart]

Hi guys,

Looks like the paid module is the answer then!

Bartman, not seen relative paths in the second part url redirects work before, they normally seem to cause a 500 error, maybe my apache settings, or perhaps tomerg3's module.

thanks
Dave

EDIT: just to clarify, I'm not saying tomerg3's causes 500s!

[bartman]

we had the same 500 error when we used the full path, as you said it must be on the server setup