: Redirecting one image type to another. Possible? I have a humor site that is based primarily on thumbnails and gifs. I'm in the process of converting all png's -> jpeg and gifs -> webm to

@Ann8826881

You don't necessarily need to externally redirect.

You could keep the (URL) filename the same and either internally rewrite to the actual .jpg file, or just make sure you send the correct Content-Type header. It is, after all, the mime-type that determines the file type, not the file extension (although this might be a bit confusing).

Obviously if you don't change the filenames then nothing changes from a client's perspective. Client-side caching should be unaffected and no change to SEO.

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@Alves908

Doing a 301 redirect, you should be fine. I would not try and redirect each image by name, but rather make sure that each new image has the same name, just another file extension. This should make redirecting a simple regex operation.

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