Shop re-direct

[timir]

I had been using a prestashop instance in a sub-dir for example http://www.mydomain.com/beta'>http://www.mydomain.com/beta for a year now and I have decided to place the shop at the root of the domain http://www.mydomain.com,'>http://www.mydomain.com, however since a year I had been doing alot of promotions on various forums , social network etc, by posting link to the product pages etc.

Hence I needed to know if there is anywhere to redirect all the external links that were pointing to the earlier location
http://www.mydomain.com/beta'>http://www.mydomain.com/beta to the current http://www.mydomain.com to avoid broken links that were used in promoting the shop on various forums.

I hope there someone can point me in the right direction.

[shokinro]

you use URL rewrite rules to do this.
You need to add the rewrite rules to .htaccess file of your site.
(which is locates under root folder)

[timir]

Hi @shokinro,

Thanks for pointing out, but from what I read about mod_rewrite is that it can be done with some professional knowledge and it could mess up with the site.


Can someone please help me write a rule where all the external links bypass the /beta folder.

[shokinro]

Yes you are right, if it is a little bit complicated to someone who do not much about regular express and rewrite rules.
It also depend your old site version and use SEO friendly URL or not.
Honestly I am not an export on this. Hope someone can give you some help.

[timir]

I have the friendly url's are turned on through the Prestashop BO