Mega list of redirects (.htaccess)

[Mone]

well lets start
but before we do red this lil snippet

notes on htaccess redirection

Always be sure to upload .htaccess files in ascii mode, sending it up as binary will break it (and usually make your server very, very unhappy.)

.htaccess does not work if you're on a windows server.

Make sure you triple check your changes. Clear your cache and look, test the server headers to make sure you see a 301 (that means its permanent) not a 302 (temporary) unless you are absolutely sure you really mean temporary.

Since some operating systems don't allow you to make a file without something before the "." you may need to save it as something.htaccess, some may even have to save it as htaccess.txt and change it once you've uploaded it.

Make sure your ftp program will show .htaccess files (FileZilla does and is free) It is a bit hard to edit something you can't see ;)

Double check that you're not overwriting an old one (some servers already place one there for your custom 404 pages etc.)

Make sure you replace example.com with your own sites URL

ok now lets begin are 1st one is 301 sounds crazy but lets go at it
for an single page

Code:

Redirect 301 /oldpage.html http://www.example.com/newpage.html

now for an entire site you do this

Code:

Redirect 301 / http://www.example.com/

now to change the end of it

Code:

RedirectMatch 301 (.*)\.html$ http://www.example.com$1.php

Read:

This example is perfect if you've decided to switch to .php from .html pages. It will look for any .html page and redirect it to .php (ie http://www.example.com/yourpage.html and redirect it to http://www.example.com/yourpage.php). Now, be careful with this, it does mean any html page. I did this on one of my sites and had totally forgotten I had an iframe with .html content on some pages... I didn't notice for weeks that it was broken :S.
So learn from my mistake ;-) check, double check, then check again.

The most common meta redirect is

Code:

meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10; url=http://example.com/">

add < before meta
if i missed an feel free to say so