Hi dklynn,
They are using 2 diferrent db-s. The first website (the one in subfolder) was made by a person before me, and it was like that for a few years.
Now i made a new website in the root, and would not like that users who click on old links (from external sources) or the ones that are still in google, to have a 404 page.
Instead i think it is smarter to have a 301 redirect for less traffic loss.
I tried your rewrite rule, but now the non sef urls from the subfolder generate a 404 page.
I don’t have experience in .htaccess, that is what i coud come up reading a few guidliness and tutorials.
I would like to point out that i have deleted the .htaccess from the subfolder. This is the whole .htaccess from the root (with your rewrite rule code).
It redirects the subfolder /old to roo corectly, but links in the /old subfolder that start with "/old/index.php… are not being redirected. In my case they were active links, in your case they are 404 pages.
Thank you for your time, i really appreciate it.
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with some server configurations. It is required for use of mod_rewrite, but may already
be set by your server administrator in a way that dissallows changing it in
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RewriteEngine On
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If you experience problems on your site block out the operations listed below
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Block out any script trying to base64_encode data within the URL.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode[^(]\([^)]\) [OR]
Block out any script that includes a <script> tag in URL.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C)([^s]s)+cript.(>|%3E) [NC,OR]
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RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})
Return 403 Forbidden header and show the content of the root homepage
RewriteRule .* index.php [F]
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Begin - Custom redirects
RewriteRule ^old(/[a-z.]+)?$ http://www.my-web.com$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} {3,9}\ /([^/]+/)index\.html?\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/))index\.html?$ http://www.my-web.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !^POST
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} {3,9}\ /([^/]+/)index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT}>s ^(443>(s)|[0-9]+>s)$
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/))index\.php$ http%2://www.my-web.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.fis-bih\.com)?$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.my-web.com/$1 [R=301,L]
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Uncomment following line if your webserver’s URL is not directly related to physical file paths.
Update Your Joomla! Directory (just / for root).
RewriteBase /
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RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
If the requested path and file is not /index.php and the request has not already been internally rewritten to the index.php script
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php
and the request is for something within the component folder, or for the site root, or for an extensionless URL, or the requested URL ends with one of the listed extensions
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /component/|(/[^.]*|\.(php|html?|feed|pdf|vcf|raw))$ [NC]
and the requested path and file doesn’t directly match a physical file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
and the requested path and file doesn’t directly match a physical folder
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
internally rewrite the request to the index.php script
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]
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