Redirects In Drupal
Today I was faced with a reorganization of one of my websites to make it more URL and category friendly. After the change, I quickly found out that my URLs in Google searches were naturally were throwing up HTTP 404 errors. So I had to remedy the situation by using HTTP 301 redirects. With Drupal, it is a little more trickier to fix. Here's how.
The problem of course, was that Drupal was rewriting the URLs in .htaccess. After fussing around a bit I came up with the following solution.
In your website's main folder, locate this line:
RewriteBase /
Please all your 301 URL redirects after that line:
RewriteRule ^path/to/url1$ http://www.site.com/newpath1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^path/to/url2$ http://www.site.com/newpath2 [R=301,L]
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