301 Redirect - Technical Question

[paulie65]

I have recently updated a site and for the url's that had changed or were not transferring I set up 301 redirects in the htaccess file as follows

This one works - Redirect 301 /industry-sectors http://www.tornadowire.co.uk/fencing

But this one doesn't  - Redirect 301 /industry-sectors/equine http://www.tornadowire.co.uk/fencing/application/equestrian/

What it does is change the url to this instead  http://www.tornadowire.co.uk/fencing/equine ..... which returns a 404 page not found error

The server is nginx based server and we have moved from a joomal platform to a wordpress platform

I would be grateful for any ideas

[crackingmedia]

Hi, it's possible that the 301 redirect that you think is handling this URL is not that redirect. It may be worth checking your .htaccess file to see if this URL path  /industry-sectors/equine is being managed by another redirect.

Check your .htaccess file for anything that might be overriding your URL path and taking it to the wrong URL.

Peter