Impacts on backlinks: https, www, 301 Redirects

[teefers (Doug Bennett)]

You might have a look at this post.

The first example will redirect HTTP to HTTPS and redirect any www to the non-www URL’s.

This assumes you’re using Apache and have access to the htaccess file on your host.

Now if any of the old pages are being renamed or are going away then you’ll need to have some rewrite rules for those individually.

Some generic htaccess redirects

RapidWeaver 8 added a nice little htaccess file editor; it can be found under the publishing settings: [2020-03-16_13-15-08] Here are a couple of simple htaccess file redirects for common conditions. These are generic, not URL specific, so these should NOT require any modifications. Force HTTPS and Remove WWW: # Force HTTPS and Remove WWW (this is a comment) RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\. [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?(.+)$ [NC] Rew…