Newbie needs help with Ultimate SEO. PLEASE.

[dumus]

Hi everyone,

I have installed the latest Ultimate SEO.

Everything works great.

Then the client wanted to redirect old urls.

here is the .htaccess

<--begin .htaccess-->

Redirect 301 /aboutus.html http://www.odlsafetyequipment.com/about_us.html

##### NOTE: Replace /shop/ with the relative web path of your catalog in the "Rewrite Base" line below:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# From Ultimate SEO URLs
RewriteRule ^(.*)-p-(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-c-(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=index&cPath=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-m-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-pi-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=popup_image&pID=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-pr-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-pri-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=product_reviews_info&products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

# For Open Operations Info Manager
RewriteRule ^(.*)-i-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=info_manager&pages_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

# For dreamscape's News & Articles Manager
RewriteRule ^news/?$ index\.php?main_page=news&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/rss.xml$ index\.php?main_page=news_rss&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/archive/?$ index\.php?main_page=news_archive&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2}).html$ index\.php?main_page=news&date=$1-$2-$3&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/archive/([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2}).html$ index\.php?main_page=news_archive&date=$1-$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/(.*)-a-([0-9]+)-comments.html$ index\.php?main_page=news_comments&article_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/(.*)-a-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

# All other pages

Redirect 301 /aboutus.html http://www.odlsafetyequipment.com/about_us.html
Redirect 301 /earplugs/earplugs.html http://www.odlsafetyequipment.com/he...s-c-19_21.html

# Don't rewrite real files or directories
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

<--end of .htaccess file-->

the old url is http://www.odlsafetyequipment.com/aboutus.html

the url from ultimate seo without a Redirect 301 is
http://www.odlsafetyequipment.com/about_us.html

Url with utlimate seo installed and Redirect 301 /aboutus.html http://www.odlsafetyequipment.com/about_us.html

results in http://www.odlsafetyequipment.com/ab...n_page=aboutus notice it adds ?main_page=aboutus to the end of the Redirect 301 url.

Any Suggestions?

Brent

[Website Rob]

There are two things wrong with your current coding:

1. you should not have REDIRECTS with REWRITES
2. your "aboutus.html" is not being redirected anywhere


Change things around a bit.

from

# All other pages

Redirect 301 /aboutus.html http://www.odlsafetyequipment.com/about_us.html
Redirect 301 /earplugs/earplugs.html http://www.odlsafetyequipment.com/he...s-c-19_21.html

# Don't rewrite real files or directories
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]


to

# All other pages

# Don't rewrite real files or directories
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

### end of SEO Code ###

### Regular Redirects
Redirect 301 aboutus.html http://www.odlsafetyequipment.com/in...n_page=aboutus
Redirect 301 earplugs/earplugs.html http://www.odlsafetyequipment.com/he...s-c-19_21.html

[dumus]

changed the .htaccess file like you suggested and it returned
http://www.odlsafetyequipment.com/ab...n_page=aboutus

There are two things wrong with your current coding:

1. you should not have REDIRECTS with REWRITES
2. your "aboutus.html" is not being redirected anywhere


Change things around a bit.

from

# All other pages

Redirect 301 /aboutus.html http://www.odlsafetyequipment.com/about_us.html
Redirect 301 /earplugs/earplugs.html http://www.odlsafetyequipment.com/he...s-c-19_21.html

# Don't rewrite real files or directories
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]


to

# All other pages

# Don't rewrite real files or directories
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

### end of SEO Code ###

### Regular Redirects
Redirect 301 aboutus.html http://www.odlsafetyequipment.com/in...n_page=aboutus
Redirect 301 earplugs/earplugs.html http://www.odlsafetyequipment.com/he...s-c-19_21.html

[Website Rob]

Sorry, my mistake. A Redirect needs to have a forward slash.

### Regular Redirects
Redirect 301 /aboutus.html http://www.odlsafetyequipment.com/in...n_page=aboutus
Redirect 301 /earplugs/earplugs.html http://www.odlsafetyequipment.com/he...s-c-19_21.html

Also, in your Admin for the SEO settings, you can have it ignore the 'aboutus' page.