HTTP redirects for individual pages

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  slaniel · Member · Sep 15, 2015 at 5:37 pm

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  WordPress.com should support HTTP 301 redirects for individual pages. I moved my site from self-hosted WordPress.org, where I had lots of Apache redirects, to WordPress.com, and now I can’t use them. This is unfortunate, because some URLs that worked on self-hosted WordPress no longer work on WordPress.com. E.g., my RSS feed URL used to be http://stevereads.com/weblog/feed/ , and now it’s http://stevereads.com/feed/ ; I’d like to set up a redirect from the former to the latter. Indeed, I’d like to set up a redirect from http://stevereads.com/weblog/(.*) to http://stevereads.com/$1 , or something similar. This feature is easy to configure in Apache: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_alias.html#redirectmatch

  A feature like this for WordPress.com would be immensely helpful.

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  neilwwatson · Member · Oct 9, 2015 at 7:31 am

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  Did you get any help on this issue?
  Regards
  Neil

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  slaniel · Member · Oct 9, 2015 at 12:42 pm

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  Nope.

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  webmasterinterkab · Member · Oct 9, 2015 at 1:51 pm

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  basic web services I would have though, so self hosting is the only solution?

  regards
  neil

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  slaniel · Member · Oct 9, 2015 at 1:51 pm

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  That’s right: self-hosting is the only way to get these redirects, as of now.