How to redirect a url to another so customers never see the redirected url, only the final url?

[HH Services Limited]

Hi, I am having an issue with smartblog module since it creates two url´s with the exact content and not only is not good for google, but it interrupts the module add this button from counting the post shares.

How can I do so that one url gets completely redirected to another so that the customers never see it?

 

Thanks.

[NemoPS]

Depends on the module, you can create a 301 redirect I guess, in the htaccess file
You need to know the blog posts pattern and regex though, I guess it needs some work

[shokinro]

You may have a look at URL rewrite rule tutorial here

https://www.addedbytes.com/articles/for-beginners/url-rewriting-for-beginners/

[HH Services Limited]

I have tried what is on the snapshot (.htaccess file) but it is not working, I can access all url´s without any redirection...

How should have I done it to make it work?

 

Thanks.

Edited June 22, 2016 by HHServices (see edit history)

[Rosa Lynn]

Good question HHServices, I hope that someone can know this one... I am having a very similar issue...

[NemoPS]

The first url must be relative, you can get rid of the first part until .com/

[HH Services Limited]

The first url must be relative, you can get rid of the first part until .com/

Sorry Nemo I dont quite understand. So what should I have typed instead? Maybe like this?:

 

 

Also, did I place the code in the right part of the .htaccess file?

Thanks for your support!!

Edited June 24, 2016 by HHServices (see edit history)

[shokinro]

@HHServices

I think what @Nemo mean is to remove whole "http://www.highesthelp.com/" from the first URL.

So it starts from en/.... 

Edited June 24, 2016 by shokinro (see edit history)

[HH Services Limited]

like this?:

Redirect 301 en/module/smartblog/category https://www.highesthelp.com/en/psychicblog.html

Redirect 301 es/module/smartblog/category https://www.highesthelp.com/es/psychicblog.html

[NemoPS]

Yes, that should work, though it might want a slash as first character

[HH Services Limited]

Great, it works great:

Redirect 301 /en/module/smartblog/category https://www.highesthelp.com/en/psychicblog.html

Redirect 301 /es/module/smartblog/category https://www.highesthelp.com/es/psychicblog.html

 

I think that I will have to do the same with every post that I place in this blog, because  /en/module/smartblog/category redirects to https://www.highesthelp.com/en/psychicblog.html   but    /en/module/smartblog/category/newpost does not redirect to https://www.highesthelp.com/en/psychicblog/newpost.html

 

Is there any way to create a rule that covers all new posts?

 

Thank you.

[NemoPS]

You need regex.
I am no regex [spam-filter] but you can try with

Redirect 301 /es/module/smartblog/category/(a-zA-Z0-9\-)+ http://youraddress/whatever/$1.html

$1 is the post name, enclosed between parenthesis
 

[HH Services Limited]

Thanks!

I have tried:

Redirect 301 /en/module/smartblog/(a-zA-Z0-9\-)+ https://www.highesthelp.com/en/(a-zA-Z0-9\-)+.html

Redirect 301 /es/module/smartblog/(a-zA-Z0-9\-)+ https://www.highesthelp.com/es/(a-zA-Z0-9\-)+.html

 

Without any success...

Any other idea?

[NemoPS]

You do not have to use that pattern on the end url, just on the first part
you can try with  ^/es/module/smartblog/(a-zA-Z0-9\-)+$ as well
It depends on how the original url is anyway, like if it has .html or not

[HH Services Limited]

Sorry Nemo, I think that i didnt explain myself well. These redirections are for the smartblog module because every time that I create a post with it, it creates automatically two url´s with the same content. One with a prettier url than the other, so I was trying to find out if I could create a rule so that everytime that I create a post it automatically redirects one of the newly created url´s to the other one (the prettiest).

 

ex:

I created a post and it made these url´s:

https://www.highesthelp.com/en/psychicblog/10_metaphysical-religion.html

https://www.highesthelp.com/en/module/smartblog/details?id_post=10

 

I want to create many posts, so redirecting manually each post on every language after I create it will en up tiring.

Do you think that I could create a rule for future posts? (each post with a different final url...)

 

Thank you Nemo!!

[Rosa Lynn]

Hello, I am having the same issue than HHServices, I hope that someone can help.