Add 301 redirects from old website to new prestashop site

[murcon]

How do I add 301 redirects to the prestashop .htaccess file to redirect pages in my old shopping cart to the pages in my new shopping cart?

[hxd]

Provided your old and new websites are installed directly in the public_html folders of the respective hosting accounts (meaning they're accessible at olddomain.com and newdomain.com), you can use the following directive:

 

Redirect 301 / http://newdomain.com

 

Hope this helps.

Edited October 9, 2012 by hxd (see edit history)

[murcon]

hxd...thanks for the reply. I am familiar with 301 rediect. But prestashop generates its own .htaccess file which has a note at the top that says not to manually modify the file. Do the old site/ new site redirects still go in that .htaccess file and if so, where are they placed? End of file? Beginning of file???

 

Thanks...Tom

[tomerg3]

You can add these from Preferences->SEO, there's a big textarea where you can add your own code which will be added to the htaccess file