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Answer 1

+5 A:

In .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^MisspelledURL$ CorrectURL [R=301,L]

Rocket 2010-09-09 19:39:43

You should add a 301 "Moved Permanently" status code though..

poke 2010-09-09 19:42:45

@poke, I added that to the answer.

Rocket 2010-09-09 19:43:56

Good, +1 then :)

poke 2010-09-09 19:44:47

so it would be RewriteRule ^http://domain.com/bad$ http://domain.com/Bad [R=301,L] - with Bad being the actual page that i am trying to redirect TO?

HollerTrain 2010-09-09 20:00:38

Yes, but if pages are on the same domain, you can just do `RewriteRule ^bad$ /Bad [R=301,L]`. domain.com/bad will redirect to domain.com/Bad

Rocket 2010-09-10 02:59:46

Answer 2

+2 A:

If you don't have access to mod_rewrite (Rocket's answer), you could also send the header by simply adding a script that does so to the misspelled directory. For example with php:

<?php
header( 'HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently' );
header( 'Location: http://domain.com/Whatever' );
exit;
?>

poke 2010-09-09 19:46:57

would this have to be on the actual page? Problem is I'm using Wordpress which creates pages dynamically.

HollerTrain 2010-09-09 19:59:24

You simply add a file to the misnamed directory that is called automatically (usually index.php). I'm not sure if that works with Wordpress, as that usually already uses mod_rewrite to rewrite every single url..

poke 2010-09-09 20:12:12

Answer 3

+2 A:

If it's a simple URL and you don't need to fix up query parameters, you could use a simple

RedirectPermanent /bad/URL/here http://example.com/proper/url/here

in your httpd.conf. That'll send a 301 code as well

Marc B 2010-09-09 19:48:32

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