how to redirect ajax to wordpress

[aditya4520]

Hi Guys,

It has been three days i've been trying to redirect ajax url to wordpress. i've tried almost everything but nothing seems to work.
i want to redirect: example.com/#!about3/c1uy6 to example.com/about-us/

we need to do it as soon as possible because most of the pages are indexed by google.
Thanks in advance.

[edited by: bill at 8:53 am (utc) on Oct 24, 2013]
[edit reason] use example.com for URLs [/edit]

[aakk9999]

Could you post a few examples of what you have tried?

NOTE: In examples, replace your domain name with example.com

[aditya4520]

Hi aakk9999,

i've tried the following codes:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&)_escaped_fragment_=about3(&|$)
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.example.com/about-us/ [R=301,L]

and i've tried 301 redirect too with no escape.

[edited by: phranque at 4:58 pm (utc) on Oct 24, 2013]
[edit reason] disable graphic smile faces [/edit]

[Ocean10000]

In my experience the "#!about3/c1uy6" part of the URL will not even be sent to the server (at least its not in Firefox). So a standard mod_rewrite will not work in this case.

[g1smd]

On a non-ajax site a straightforward request for

example.com/#!about3/c1uy6

will result in a

GET / HTTP/1.1

request to the server with the browser expecting to find an in-page named anchor called

!about3/c1uy6

to scroll down to.

Search engines will not treat

example.com/

and

example.com/#!about3/c1uy6

as duplicate content. They will treat them both as being the root home page.

In this case, the OP wants a request for the old Ajax URL to redirect to a different place. The only way this can be done is by ensuring there is some javascript on the root home page that can detect the

#!about3/c1uy6

part in the browser address bar and then act on it.

This javscript could simply cause the browser to make a new request for the new URL, or it could send an Ajax-like request to the server that causes it to issue a proper 301 redirect. Which one you do depends on whether this is for visitors using a browser or for search engines as well.

In any case, your pattern ending

about3(&|$)

would never match the URL request given in the example as there's

/c1uy6

following.

[aditya4520]

Thanks g1smd. I'll try to redirect it using javascript.