Not allowing me 301 Redirect

Melia

I am trying redirect my old site to my new site, both on the same domain. For one reason or another, I am having a hard time redirecting the some of the old urls to the new site. Please let me know how I can fix this issue.

Below are the following old urls that are not allowing me to redirect:

itrogers

These are redirecting, but they are redirecting to a page that is not there. So the result of your 301 ends up as a 404.

Are you using your .htaccess file to perform 301s? If otherwise, let us know so that we can further address the problem. If you can, copy your .htaccess file contents here.

Melia

Thanks for your response. I understand the these hard 404 are coming from other 404s. But how come I am able to redirect some of the 404s and not the ones above.

For example.

I was able to redirect http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/spanish/services/ (which is orginally 301 redirected from http://www.me-by-melia.com/spanish/services/) to http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/en/services.html/ succesfully.

I dont have access to .htacess file.

itrogers

Double check your file names wherever you are setting up the redirect. The first URL in your original post 301s to this URL:

http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/en/index.htmlmelia-caribe-tropical-announces-fall-promotion.html

See how there is more after the first .html? Looks like you might have just accidentally misspelled your end locations

Melia

Yes I understand that is a given. But the other hard 404s, which I did the exact same 301 strategy at the ones in the first post.

The succesfully 301s:

Melia

Hi Roger,

This is part of our .httaccess for the redirects.

I don’t understand why the destination page is different from the one is configured in the apache server.. Any ideas?

ServerAdmin ecommerce@sol-group.com

DocumentRoot /home/www/solgroup/americas/meliacaribetropical.com

ServerName www.meliacaribetropical.com

ServerAlias meliacaribetropical.com

Redirect permanent /spanish/services/ http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/en/services.html

Redirect permanent /entertainment/ http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/en/services.html

Redirect permanent /press/ http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/en/index.html

Redirect permanent /spanish/ http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/index.html

Redirect permanent /es/restaurantes/ http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/gastronomia.html

Redirect permanent /spanish/entertainment/ http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/servicios.html

Redirect permanent /spanish/services/ http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/servicios.html

Redirect permanent /es/spa/ http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/servicios.html

Redirect permanent /spanish/accommodations/ http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/habitaciones.html

Redirect permanent /spanish/spa/ http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/servicios.html

Redirect permanent /spanish/royal/ http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/servicio-real.html

Redirect permanent /spanish/dining/ http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/gastronomia.html

Redirect permanent /spanish/flintstones/ http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/index.html

Redirect permanent /es/galeria/ http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/visor.html

Redirect permanent /spanish/gallery/ http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/visor.html

Redirect permanent /es/reuniones-eventos/ http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/grupos.html

Redirect permanent /lowest-rate.php http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/en/index.html

Redirect permanent /es/los-picapiedra/ http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/index.html

Redirect permanent /gallery/beach.html http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/en/index.html

Redirect permanent /gallery/dining.html http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/en/gastronomy.html

Redirect permanent /gallery/pools.html http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/en/index.html

Redirect permanent /spanish/sitemap.html http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/index.html

Redirect permanent /es/galeria/playa.html http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/index.html

Redirect permanent /es/galeria/restaurantes.html http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/gastronomia.html

Redirect permanent /es/galeria/piscinas.html http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/index.html

Redirect permanent /es/prensa/ http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/index.html

Redirect permanent /spanish/gallery/beach.html http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/index.html

Redirect permanent /spanish/gallery/pools.html http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/index.html

Redirect permanent /spanish/gallery/dining.html http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/gastronomia.html

Redirect permanent /spanish/press/ http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/index.html

Redirect permanent /en/groups.html http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/en/groups.html

Redirect permanent /terms-condition.php http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/en/index.html

Redirect permanent /es/all_inclusive.html http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/index.html

Redirect permanent /es/terms-condition.php http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/index.html

Redirect permanent /es/prensa/family-facilities-amenities.html http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/index.html

Redirect permanent /es/outside-us-telephone-listing.php http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/en/index.html

Redirect permanent /spanish/press/melia-international-brand-overhaul.html http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/index.html

Redirect permanent /es/prensa/melia-international-brand-overhaul.html http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/index.html

Redirect permanent /press/family-facilities-amenities.html http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/en/index.html

Redirect permanent /press/melia-international-brand-overhaul.html http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/en/index.html

Redirect permanent /es/prensa/melia-caribe-tropical-announces-fall-promotion.html http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/index.html

Redirect permanent /spanish/press/melia-caribe-tropical-announces-fall-promotion.html http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/es/index.html

Redirect permanent /press/melia-caribe-tropical-announces-fall-promotion.html http://www.meliacaribetropical.com/en/index.html

itrogers

try using "redirect 301 old.html new.html" that is the traditional way using a 301 with an .htaccess file.

Melia

Will do. I'll let you know what happens.

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