I have 4,100 302 redirects; How can I change so many to 301s

[freedomelectronics]

hi, i have way to many 302 redirects, how can i bulk change these to 301

i have started in cpanel but i could be old by the time i finsih

[Dan-Petrovic]

Browse to your .htaccess file in WWW directory and open it in editor (if you're using cpanel) or download edit and upload via FTP (safer option). You can do a find and replace on the file like with anything else. If you are unsure of the syntax create a single 301 in cpanel and see how it looks like when you open up the file.

Good luck!

[randfish]

Dejan's solution is solid, but you may also want to try writing a redirect rule, using mod_rewrite for Apache (or ISAPI_rewrite in IIS). More info here - http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection and here - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/url-rewrites-and-301-redirects-how-does-it-all-work

[Dan-Petrovic]

Absolutely. In fact I realised that I missed the above after posting but my edit did not register. I hope my editing priviledges are not revoked.