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Hi Hugo,
We have ready to me our old site to our new wordpress site..
In order to keep google and our ranking, we wrote the following rules:

UrlToolkit {
  ToolkitID = redirect_old_urls
  Match ^/testing.shtml$ Redirect /testing
  Match ^/payments.shtml$ Redirect /payments
  Match ^/enquiry.php Redirect /contact
  Match ^/packs.shtml Redirect Redirect /category/sale
  Match ^/privacy.shtml Redirect Redirect /privacy
  Match ^/ground-protection-mats.shtml Redirect /product/durapark-tile-black
  Match ^/garage-flooring.shtml Redirect /category/garage-flooring
  Match ^/cookies.shtml Redirect /cookies
  Match ^/faq.shtml$ Redirect http://uptime.trinitech.uk/
  Match ^/help.shtml Redirect /help
  Match ^/ground-stabilisation-mats.shtml Redirect /product/durapark-tile-black
  Match ^/accessories.shtml Redirect /category/accessories
  Match ^/disc-plate.shtml Redirect /product/discplate-tile-black
  Match ^/ground-shield.shtml Redirect /product/durapark-tile-black
}

The code above doesn't work for some reason. When I type http://mydomain.com/faq.shtml I am not redirected to http://mydomain.com/fag

Could you please tell me where I went wrong?

Thank you
Fred

First, there are some errors in the toolkit rule. Line 6 and 7 contain a double 'Redirect'. The line with /faq.shtml doesn't redirect to /faq, but to a complete new URL. Change that line to

Match ^/faq.shtml$ Redirect /faq

Hugo,

Thank you for the fast reply.
Do I need the $ at the end of all the entries?
Do you think the double 'Redirect' wa stopping it from working?
Does Hiawatha do any check on the toolkit when restarting?

Fred

Hi Hugo,

I have made the changes but the rules are still not working.
I have send you an email with domain URL and config file

Hope you can help further

Thank you

Hi Hugo,

I managed to sort it with yoast seo but I still like to know if redirection as mentioned above is possible with hiawath/wordpress

Thank you

Can you tell me what you want? Hiawatha's UrlToolkit works as intended.

Hi Hugo
I want to redirect url that are indexed in google to be redirected to the new location.
For for example, if I type the name of my website in google, it return my site at the top of google a with the most popular url..
One of them is www.mydomain.co.uk/garage-flooring.shtml .
On the new website this page exist but it is located at mydomain.co.uk/category/garage-flooring. Wordpress don't display extension.
What I need is a 301 permanent redirection from www.mydomain.co.uk/garage-flooring.shtml to mydomain.co.uk/category/garage-flooring

Hope this is clearer

Fred

For that, your UrlToolkit rule looks ok. Can you tell me the url of your website? I want to see for myself what goes wrong.