I’m trying to do something specific here, that may be a little complicated and I can’t figure out how to do it.
This is what I have with htaccess:
RewriteOptions inherit
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^homepageA.ar$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.homepageA.ar$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "https://homepageB.ar/" [R=301,L]
-User enter to homepageA -> user is automatically redirected homepageB
homepageB includes a “home” menu button pointing to homepageA, so of course touching that button redirects to homepageB again. But I need to avoid this. I need that users on homepageB can go to the “old” homepageA without the redirection to the new homepageB.
Is there a way to achieve this? Or a way to append something on a link that avoids htaccess redirection (so I can modify the “home” button link accordingly)?
Thanks in advance!
Answers:
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Method 1
A quick way might be to simply append a query string to the URL in order to prevent the redirect (eg. ?noredirect) – simply appending a query string should not prevent the old homepageA from displaying.
You’ll presumably want to prevent indexing of the ?noredirect URL. This can be achieved by sending an X-Robots-Tag: noindex HTTP response header.
However, any user typing this URL (ie. ?noredirect) will be able to access the old homepageA, regardless of whether they have visited homepageB first.
For example:
# Redirect homePageA to homepageB, when the query string is not "noredirect"
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^noredirect$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?homepageA.ar
RewriteRule ^$ https://homepageB.ar/ [R=301,L]
# Send the X-Robots-Tag noindex header when query string is "noredirect"
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^noredirect$
RewriteRule ^ - [E=NOINDEX:1]
Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex" env=REDIRECT_NOINDEX
There’s no need to backslash-escape colons, slashes and dots in the RewriteRule substitution string. And the RewriteRule pattern ^$ is the same as ^/?$ when used in .htaccess.
Assuming you are on Apache and you are internally rewriting the request to the WordPress front-controller (the standard WP .htaccess directives) then you need to check REDIRECT_NOINDEX in the Header directive, despite setting the NOINDEX env var in the preceding RewriteRule directive. (The rewrite engine triggers a “loop” and the NOINDEX env var is renamed to REDIRECT_NOINDEX.)
You’ll need to clear your browser cache before testing and preferably test first with 302 (temporary) redirects before making it a 301 (permanent) redirect.
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