{"id":1570,"date":"2023-06-26T13:24:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T13:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darrenlambert.com\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2023-06-26T13:24:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T13:24:14","slug":"wp-engine-redirect-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenlambert.com\/wp-engine-redirect-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"WP Engine Redirect Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since WP Engine <a href=\"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/support\/htaccess-deprecation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deprecated .htaccess support<\/a> we need to use different methods to redirect old URLs.<\/p>\n<p>They offer a good redirect rule system.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an solution to redirect the following structure<\/p>\n<p><em>www.domain.com\/wp-content\/documents\/document-name.pdf<\/em><\/p>\n<p>to this new structure<\/p>\n<p><em>www.domain.com\/document\/document-name<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source<\/p>\n<pre>^\/wp-content\/documents\/(.*?)\\.pdf$<\/pre>\n<p>Destination<\/p>\n<pre>https:\/\/www.domain.com\/document\/$1<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since WP Engine deprecated .htaccess support we need to use different methods to redirect old URLs. 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Here&#8217;s an solution to redirect the following structure www.domain.com\/wp-content\/documents\/document-name.pdf to this new structure www.domain.com\/document\/document-name Source ^\/wp-content\/documents\/(.*?)\\.pdf$ Destination https:\/\/www.domain.com\/document\/$1 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WP Engine Redirect Rules - Darren Lambert<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenlambert.com\/wp-engine-redirect-rules\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WP Engine Redirect Rules - Darren Lambert\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Since WP Engine deprecated .htaccess support we need to use different methods to redirect old URLs. 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