301 redirects for lots of pages

Asked Jun 18 '14 at 15:50

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I have inherited a site that was built with Joomla and the migrated to WordPress. There are 500 posts with the same name, but the path before the name of the post is different. How can I write in htaccess a rule that chceck if the name of the post is identical then it redirects to the new path+name of post without having to write 500 "301 redirects"?

All old pages have been indexed and they give 404 errors. They posts have been imported from Joomla to Wordpress with a plugin and they all exists in the new website.

Old website:

http://vitalpethealth.co.uk/index.php/dogs/dog-section-layout/dog-behaviour-and-training/447-separation-anxiety-of-our-dogs

New website:

http://vitalpethealth.co.uk/separation-anxiety-of-our-dogs/

Any pointer is much appreciated.

edited Jun 18 '14 at 16:03

Giacomo1968

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asked Jun 18 '14 at 15:50

bertassa

Do these pages have the exact same content and is this for SEO purposes? – Wayne Whitty Jun 18 '14 at 15:53
Yes, they have the same content – bertassa Jun 18 '14 at 15:53
Are you doing this because you're worried about the impact that duplicate content might have on your SEO? – Wayne Whitty Jun 18 '14 at 15:54
Yes. All old pages have been indexed and give 404 errors (more than 500 to be precise).. – bertassa Jun 18 '14 at 15:55
Ok, so how many of them still exist or are they all gone now? – Wayne Whitty Jun 18 '14 at 15:56
All of them exist. The previous developer used some plugin to import Joomla posts into WordPress. – bertassa Jun 18 '14 at 15:57
You could use the canonical link tag. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en and point it to the main URL that you want indexed. – Wayne Whitty Jun 18 '14 at 15:58
From a database a PHP code can read off the redirects that redirect you to the new pages. – androbin Jun 18 '14 at 23:28

301 redirects for lots of pages

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