Tough 301 redirect with a /www in it

[Shawn124]

Hi Mozzers,

I'm using Eggplants 301 redirect via wordpress and for some reason I can't redirect one url.

The example of it is below:

www.website.com/news/www.website.com

As you can see, it looks like there's 2 url's and this plugin doesn't do the trick.  Does anyone have any suggestions?  Maybe via .htaccess?

Thank you!

[Lumina]

I'm unfamiliar with the plugin, but usually when a full url is shown after the base as a subpage or subfolder, it means that there was a redirect setup incorrectly. Meaning, that isn't a url that you can't redirect, it's a url that's already being redirected, and incorrectly looping back on itself. Check the plugin to see if that's the case, and if not there, check the htaccess as well as the page source itself.

[Shawn124]

Bryan,

It's a link that is coming from a couple of press releases we sent out last month.  I just need to redirect the link to /news.  Not coming from our 301 list.

Any suggestions?

[dohertyjf]

I am also not familiar with the plugin. I use the Redirection plugin (that's its actual name!) for WordPress redirects.

Can you not specify the full URL? Otherwise, can you use /news/www.website.com because that is the path after your website.com actual URL? From the screenshots of the plugin it looks like that might work...