301 redirect help

[njtweb]

Hi,

I had a topic get way out of control and wound up with a league sending me a threat to sue.

I moved the topic to my admin forum which is restricted to only me. I then created a new topic on the main forum advising, due to circumstances out of our control we were forced to remove the original topic.

Am I able to 301 redirect the original to the new topic advising its removed? As it currently stands when anybody clicks that link in google results they get a 403 forbidden.

This is what I wrote in my htaccess and it's not working.

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Redirect 301 /index.php?topic=1333 https://www.mysite.com/index.php?topic=1354

Thank you to all in advance.

[Pipke]

you can do this without modifying htaccess

in Display.template.php

find

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function template_main()
{
global $context, $settings, $options, $txt, $scripturl, $modSettings;


add after it

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if ($context['current_topic'] === 1333)
redirectexit('topic=1354');


[njtweb]

you can do this without modifying htaccess

in Display.template.php

find

Code Select Expand


function template_main()
{
global $context, $settings, $options, $txt, $scripturl, $modSettings;


add after it

Code Select Expand


if ($context['current_topic'] === 1333)
redirectexit('topic=1354');


Thank you very much!

[_sebas_]

really this is like 301 ?