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    <p>I am moving a website to wordpress but I want to keep the current URL structure for SEO purposes.</p> <p>The current site uses a combination of .htm and .html files. I found success in redirecting to .htm when the request is .html. </p> <p>For example</p> <pre><code> RedirectMatch 301 (.*)\wp-site/mywebpage.html$ http://www.mydomain.com/wp-site/mywebpage.htm </code></pre> <p>I have trouble with the following: </p> <p>when the .html file has upper and lower case. I can't seem to find a solution to redirect any request despite the case to its .htm equivalent</p> <p>For example: My-Posts/Alpha-Page.html needs to redirect to my-posts/alpha-page.htm or MY-POSTS/ALPHA-PAge.html redirects to my-posts/alpha-page.htm (or any of "my-posts/alpha-page" that contains uppercase. basically all requests despite case needs to redirect to all lowercase .htm file)</p> <p>I know it's a little difficult because it's a combination 1) I'm redirecting to .htm and 2) for the case insensitivity.</p> <p>Few things to consider:</p> <ol> <li>I know Wordpress posts are case-insensitive. Wordpress's static page are case-sensitive.</li> <li>I know RedirectMatch won't work because it matches it exactly.</li> <li>I believe I need to use RewriteCond and RewriteRule, but can't seem to find "good" step by step explanations. Also, I don't understand their variables (ie: %{HTTP_HOSTS}) and the regular expression convention.</li> <li>I am not an Apache/.htaccess or regular expressions expert by any means.</li> </ol> <p>Theoretically, it seems there should be a way for it to work. I will continue to see if I can find solutions here at stackoverflow or other outside resources and if I do find a solution here at stackoverflow, I will marked this as solved and have it removed.</p> <p>Any help is appreciated!</p> <p>Thanks</p> <p>UPDATE 06/17/2011:</p> <p>Here is my current .htaccess file</p> <pre><code> # BEGIN WordPress &lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt; RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /wp-test-2011-06-13/ RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /wp-test-2011-06-13/index.php RedirectMatch 301 (.*)\wp-test-2011-06-13/redirect.html$ http://www.mydomain.com/wp-test-2011-06-13/redirect.htm RewriteRule ^ORLANDO-criminal-defense-attorney/defense-attorney-NEJAME.html$ /orlando-criminal-defense-attorney/defense-attorney-nejame.htm [QSA,NC,R=301] &lt;/IfModule&gt; # END WordPress </code></pre> <p>UPDATE 06/20/2011:</p> <p>Here is my current .htaccess file:</p> <pre><code> # BEGIN WordPress &lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt; Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /wp-test-2011-06-13/ RewriteRule ^/wp-test-2011-06-13/index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule .* /wp-test-2011-06-13/index.php RedirectMatch 301 (.*)\wp-test-2011-06-13/redirect.html$ http://www.mydomain.com/wp-test-2011-06-13/redirect.htm RewriteRule ^ORLANDO-criminal-defense-attorney/defense-attorney-NEJAME\.html$ /orlando-criminal-defense-attorney/defense-attorney-nejame.htm [QSA,NC,R=301] &lt;/IfModule&gt; # END WordPress </code></pre> <p>I get a Wordpress "Page Not Found" page when I type <a href="http://www.mydomain.com/wp-test-2011-06-13/ORLANDO-criminal-defense-attorney/defense-attorney-NEJAME.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.mydomain.com/wp-test-2011-06-13/ORLANDO-criminal-defense-attorney/defense-attorney-NEJAME.html</a> (or lowercase equivalent with .html)</p>
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    1. COAs I understand you want: 1) change file extension in final url from html to htm; 2) ignore the case when redirecting .. or change final page URL to a lower case?
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    2. CO1) Yes. Change the request of .html to redirect to .htm 2) I believe I want to ignore case. MYPAGE.html --> mypage.htm, or mYPaGe.html --> mypage.htm, or MYpaGE.html --> mypage.htm, etc... basically ignoring the case of the request and redirecting to the lower case .htm version
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    3. COI thought something like this might work. `code` RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^section/individual-page.html [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/wp-install/section/individual-page.htm/$1 [L,R=301] I think I'm on the right track. [NC] should ignore case right?
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