: Redirect pages to fix crawl errors Google is giving me a crawl error for pages that I have removed like www.mysite.com/mypage.html. I want to redirect this pages to the new page www.mysite.com/mysite/mypage.

@Angie530

Your problem may be to do with that rewritebase command.

Have you checked you redirects to see if they work properly?

I would place my custom redirects above the rewrite block of code. It makes more sense and avoids that rewritebase causing trouble. Just make sure you have a rewriteengine on before it all.

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@Eichhorn148

I prefer to use the Redirect command in .htaccess rather than a rewrite rule for simple redirects:

redirect 301 /pagename.html www.sitename.com/pagename

But if you would rather use a rewrite rule, your rule looks like it should be fine.

When I run WordPress, it is more convenient for me to install the Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin that allows me to specify all the redirects from the WordPress admin interface. I also install the True Google 404 Plugin that keeps track of 404s in the admin interface so I know which redirects to add.

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