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Hello All:

I´ve recently switched my site from normal html to Joomla1.5, and I need to do some 301 Redirects. I´m not sure if what I want to do is possible, but I figured I would ask.

Goal 1. I want to redirect ALL .htm files to www.mydomain.com EXCEPT for those contained in a subfolder,
Goal 2. However, I want to exclude a couple of specific .htm files, which would be redirected to specific pages and not to www.mydomain.com. Right now I have 301 redirects written for these, but I didn´t know if goal #1 would take precidence over these or not.

Option #2: Another option, if anyone knows how to do it, would be to redirect all files in mydomain.com that start with a certain letter to one file ... for example, all files in www.mydomain.com that start with E would be redirected to www.mydomain.com/newpageE.html

Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you!

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For (Joomla 1.5 migration): server-level 301s in the root .htaccess are the cleaner, SEO-friendly solution — they are faster and more reliable than PHP/meta-refresh approaches mentioned by . The two critical rules are ordering (place specific redirects before any wildcard) and exclusion (make sure the /archives/ folder is exempt). Custom redirects must go above Joomla's SEF rewrite block so they run first.

RewriteEngine On

# specific file redirects (place these FIRST)
RewriteRule ^oldpage1\.htm$ /newpage1.html [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^oldpage2\.htm$ /newpage2.html [R=301,L]

# exclude /archives/ then redirect any .htm to site root
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/archives/ [NC]
RewriteRule \.htm$ / [R=301,L]

Alternative (Option #2) — redirect any .htm that begins with the letter "E" to a single page:

# redirect any .htm starting with "E" (case-insensitive) to /newpageE.html
RewriteRule ^e[^/]*\.htm$ /newpageE.html [R=301,L,NC]

Notes and cautions: place explicit redirects before the catch-all so they take precedence; test rules as temporary 302s before committing 301s (browsers cache 301 aggressively); clear browser cache and verify responses with curl -I or an HTTP header checker. To drop query strings use the QSD flag on Apache 2.4+ ([R=301,L,QSD]) or append a literal ? to the target on older servers (e.g., /newpage.html?). Back up the existing .htaccess, ensure mod_rewrite is enabled, and keep these lines above Joomla's SEF rules so core routing is not overridden.

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You can do redirection of your web pages from within the control of your web hosting account. I know cPanel has such function.

But if you don't want to go that route, this is a simple PHP code for URL redirection:

<?php
   ob_start();
   echo "Redirecting......";
   echo '<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://www.mydomain.com/" />';
   ob_flush();
?>

Copy and paste this code on every web page you'd like redirected to www.mydomain.com

For the other part, you have to change "url=http://www.mydomain.com/" to "url=www.mydomain.com/newpageE.html"

I hope this will help a bit.

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