Need some expert advice

[probashi]

Hi all,

Need some expert advice please.

I have an online store running on a ASP shopping cart. I'm thinking of migrating to PHP/ to Prestashop.

With the present site, some of the URLs have been indexed very well by google. For example:

http://www.MySite.com/scripts/prodList.asp?idCategory=22

When i migrate, these URLs will be lost - Is there a way to overcome this.

At present i'm hosting on window - I'm aware i will need to move to Apache


Many thanks

[shokinro]

If you use Linux hosting, you should be able to implement that by using URL Rewrite rule.
But you need to learn how to write rules. Just Google keyword "php url rewrite tutorial" you will find a lot information on this.

[probashi]

Hi,

Googled and read couple of articles - It's quite hard for me to fully understand .htaccess rewrite rules. But hope to learn.

Can you please give an example of a rewrite rule based on the below URL:

old url:
http://www.MySite.com/scripts/prodList.asp?idCategory=22

New url:
http://www.MySite.com/5-new-new


Many thanks

[shokinro]

Just for your reference.

old url:
http://www.MySite.com/scripts/prodList.asp?idCategory=22

I think following rule should work, I didn't test it. You can try.

RewriteRule ^scripts/prodList.asp\?idCategory\=([0-9]+)$ /category.php?id_category=$1 [QSA,L,E]

New url:
http://www.MySite.com/5-new-new

This one, PrestaShop will automatically generate a rule for you. I will be like as

RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)\-([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)(.*)$ /category.php?id_category=$1 [QSA,L,E]

[probashi]

Shokinro, thanks for your help - i appreciate it.

I'm afraid this rule does not work. I'm landing on the 404 errors page.

Also would this need to be a permanent redirect - 301


Thanks

[probashi]

Bump

Any body familiar with re-write rules who can help