By theroyal on

Please this is very important my my google visitors dropped 99% after I moved to drupal clean urls

please HOW TO : 301 redirect visitors from 80000 old urls like :
http://example.com/article.php?id=1
to
http://example.com/article/1

I will be so thankful my business is dieing.

note : I have path_auto + global redirect + path redirect - but I dont think they do forward 301 dynamic urls if they do then please someone explain.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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onejam commented

You can use the .htaccess to rewrite the url.

Off the top of me head, try this:

RewriteRule /articles/([0-9]+) /articles.php?id=$1

Have a look at: http://www.webmasterworld.com/apache/3740459.htm

NOTE: Be careful because i'm sure not all your drupal urls are going to be article/{number} depending on how your content-types are structured.

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theroyal commented

Hi duvien,

Thanks for your response but after spending some time I couldnt understand enough what I should do,
so as a temp. solution I uploaded a simple php file with one line which is redirect comannd to the new url.

so I still need your help guys coz I cant leave this file for long time or it will harm my SEO.