I just updated a site so that it works better on phones and tablets. While updating I also cleaned up a lot of old code. In the process of cleaning up many of the old pages are no longer valid. Rather than redirecting to a generic page, I can redirect certain links to specific missing link pages. This is what I did for old manuals pages that I moved.<\/p>\n
\n<?php\n$oldurl = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];\n\/\/ Redirect requests for manuals\nswitch ($oldurl) {\n case '\/products\/mobile\/manual_1.php';\n case '\/products\/mobile\/manual_2.php';\n case '\/products\/mobile\/manual_3.php';\n case '\/products\/mobile\/manual_4.php';\n etc.\n\n header("Location: https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/products\/manuals_mobile.php",TRUE,301);\n break;\n}\n?>\n<div class="centered">\n<h1>Error 404<br \/>Document not found<\/h1>\n <img class='pure-img-responsive centered' src='\/images\/sad.png' alt='Sad' \/>\n <p>We\u2019re sorry, but the page you requested could not be found.<br \/>\n Please use the menus at the top or bottom of this page to find what you are looking for.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/code><\/pre><\/p>\nBy parsing the $oldurl, you can redirect missing files from sections of your site to a missing page that can help your visitors find what they are looking for rather than just a generic page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I just updated a site so that it works better on phones and tablets. While updating I also cleaned up a lot of old code. In the process of cleaning up many of the old pages are no longer valid. Rather than redirecting to a generic page, I can redirect certain links to specific missing … Continue reading Redirecting missing links<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-html-and-css"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}