Page Redirects

[andy]

We are about to take our new site live soon, but we are going to change the cuerrent director structure from www.website.com/zen-cart-v1.1.3/ to www.website.com/shop/ is there a way to catch all the customers who have bookmarked the old site and send them to the new url?

Ive played with htaccess files, but cant get it to work well enough

thanks

Andy

[kobra]

You did not post your htaccess attempt but this format should take care of this

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.maindomain.com/zen-cart-v1.1.3/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.maindomain.com/shop/$1 [R=301]

[andy]

thanks

i guess i only change www.maindomin.com to our domain?

Andy

[Kim]

Are you really using Zen Cart version 1.1.3?

[andy]

no, its just how long ago we started using it, and kept the dir structure, which is why we are changing it with the re worked website, the current version is 1.3.7

Andy

[Kim]

Whew! May I suggest you rename the directory to catalog or something innocuous - very easy to do - then just change your 2 config files to match.

[andy]

hi
yes we are going to do just that, but dont want the 404 error page not found, from bookmarked pages, so will use the code kobra posted to achieve this

thanks

Andy