301 Redirects

[BrandBuilder]

Hello, All. Hopefully this will be an easy question for some of you.

I have a (WordPress) site with the format of:

http://www.site.com/folder-old/page-old/

I have since re-named both the parent and sub-folders to (example):

http://www.site.com/folder-new/page-new/

Everything is working well EXCEPT I am also trying to redirect visitors from the old URL/structure to the new. I have a 301 redirect setup as the following:

Redirect 301 /folder-old/page-old/ http://www.site.com/folder-new/page-new/

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But it doesn't seem to be working. Not sure if this is something finicky with WordPress or if the redirect is incorrect. Thank you.

[UmarKhan]

Hey,

Have you tried to use  "#Redirect 301 http://site.com/folder-old/page-old/ http://site.com/folder-new/page-new/"

This should work out if you still face any issue try to do it with this plugin.

Hope this helps!

Umar

[BrandBuilder]

Thanks. Adding the "#" didn't work. I will try the plug-in. Thanks.

[O2C]

Adding a # to the beginning of a line of code in the htaccess file will make it redundant, it is used for adding comments into the file.

Try it without the # at the beginning but with both full URLs

Redirect 301 http://site.com/folder-old/page-old/ http://site.com/folder-new/page-new/

I always use 301 redirects without the full URLs and it works fine so try the below if the above doesn't work.

Redirect 301 /folder-old/page-old/ /folder-new/page-new/

[BrandBuilder]

Thanks for the feedback. I've tried both (full URL and no URL leading) and neither work. It seems to always redirect to the new "/folder-new/" but the old "/page-old/" no matter what.

For example:

Redirect 301 /folder-old/page-old/ /folder-new/page-new/

results in:

http:///www.site.com/folder-new/page-old/