Moving WP to Root Folder and Keeping Existing Links

Moving WP Keep Links

[pburke367]

I am moving a photography blog from [http://examplesite.net/wordpress] to [http://examplesite.net].

I need to redirect the existing links for pages and posts to the the new pages.

[http://examplesite.net/wordpress/category/page-or-post/]
to
[http://examplesite.net/category/page-or-post/]

I will be using the following rewrite:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) [examplesite.net...] [R=301,L]

Will this accomplish what I need?

Thanks in Advance

Paul

[phranque]

welcome to WebmasterWorld, Paul!

RewriteRule (.*) [examplesite.net...] [R=301,L]

this is incorrect syntax and won't do anything useful - probably detrimental to server function.

you will need something in your RewriteRule Pattern that specifies a capture group excluding the "wordpress" part of the path and back-references that in the Substitution string.
with a redirect you also want to specify a complete hostname starting with the protocol (http:) in the Substitution string.


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