Search Engine Friendly URL's not working after moving to new server/host

**sircuss** · 05-09-2007, 11:02 PM

I have MS2-Max installed (oscmax 1.7) and have "Use Search-Engine Safe URLs (still in development)" enabled. It worked fine on my old host. On the new one, when clicked, every cpath/id returns to the index page and does not go to different categories. I searched a lot and I'm hoping someone else has had this issue and can guide me to a resolution. Is it a different Apache version problem?

I see that some of the code is in includes/functions/html_output.php, includes/application_top.php. Should these be modified? If so how?

**michael_s** · 05-10-2007, 08:56 AM

That option should never be used as it is deprecated. It has never worked correctly and was replaced by Chemo's SEO urls.

Your best option is to turn that feature off permanently and use the new SEO urls mod by Chemo.

**sircuss** · 05-10-2007, 04:02 PM

What about the page ranking and search engine placement? The site has top spots in many keywords. Is there a way to redirect without losing rank?

Any other solutions?

**aaanativearts** · 05-10-2007, 04:42 PM

You can redirect without losing rank by using a 301 Moved Permanently directive in your .htaccess file. For each url that is changing add the following line to your .htaccess file:

Code:

Redirect 301 /oldpage.htm http://www.mysite.com/newpage.htm
or
Redirect 301 /directory/oldpage.htm http://www.mysite.com/directory/newpage.htm

Use the first option if the old page is in the root directory and the second if it's in another directory. Do note how the first parameter is just the page location whereas the second is the complete web address with the http and www. Add one line like this for each url that is changing. Hope this helps!