Not yet. Mostly now I'm

aharown07 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:10:59 +0000

Not yet. Mostly now I'm working on reducing the 404's a bit. But most of my 404's are coming from crawlers that are--for some odd reason--still looking for pages that are not there (despite excluding them in robots.txt).

Learning to write redirects in .htaccess has to wait until I have some time.

Have you tried a htaccess

mrgilb — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:22:12 +0000

Have you tried a htaccess file?

Don't worry, it's easy

Megan — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:17:07 +0000

Don't worry, it's easy

I could try that. Only

aharown07 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:18:25 +0000

I could try that. Only reason I went w/the cPanel is that it's there, it's easy to use and I've never attempted it in .htaccess so... I don't really know the proper syntax.
Plenty of places I can read up on that, but it's definitely not familiar territory.

I'd probably get rid of

Megan — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:04:25 +0000

I'd probably get rid of those and do it through .htaccess. Then you can see exactly what's going on.

Is there any reason why you wanted to use cPanel instead? Is it just the redirects going to the xml file that aren't working? Maybe something cpanel is doing is distorting code or something... maybe it's not set up to work with xml? Who knows.

The redirects I've put in

aharown07 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:17:02 +0000

The redirects I've put in place so far I created with a cPanel applet... so I don't know where they actually live or what they look like. I haven't attempted any in .htaccess yet.

What's curious to me is that most of the redirects work, but some don't... can't figure out why that would be.

Can you show us the redirect

greg — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:37:00 +0000

Can you show us the redirect code you are using (I presume in htaccess).
Also, the URLs that are 404.

If you are using htaccess, does your server have the ReWriteEngine on by default? If not, you need to do this in the htaccess too.

I should mention that I

aharown07 — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:44:00 +0000

I should mention that I tested the destination url directly in a browser and found that it worked fine. So the redirect is not happening for some reason.