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Define .htaccess for Web Site Migration

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Hello, My name is Dave and I own a small family owned e-commerce site that is based upon the OSCommerce shopping cart open-source solution. We are almost done upgrading our website to a new template and one of our primary goals is to move the site to the root directory (for SEO purposes) from the current "/catalog/" directory. Obviously, this move is going to require .htaccess work to ensure proper and effective 301 redirects. However, this work is complicated by the fact that we already have many 301 redirects as a result of a lingering issue with the old site. Luckily, the new site resolves that issue. I need someone that can optimize our .htaccess files / methods in the most effective manner in order to keep them from being massive (they are already much larger than recommended = 192K). If you are interested in helping with this project, please respond by Monday, July 7, 2014 11:59 PM CST with a proposed price and schedule for completion. If you have questions, please reach out to me. I am also willing to provide my current .htaccess file upon request. Below are details of the task. PS, if your prices are reasonable and you are interested, I have several other tasks that I need to have done rather quickly to support our migration. DETAILS REGARDING THE .HTACCESS OPTIMIZATION TASK Optimize the appropriate .htaccess files to support the site migration while ensuring the optimization takes the following into consideration: I. Our old site has implemented a solution called "SEO Optimized URLs for OSCommerce Sites" which obviously produces URLs that are different from the standard OSCommerce item URLs. Because our (old site) Google Site Map and a couple of other pages still present the standard OSCommerce URLs, we have been forced to create 301 redirects for every product that we add to our site. Thus, the .htaccess file has become large (192k). II. The new site is based upon a newer version of the OSCommerce shopping cart solution which already has "SEO Optimized URLs" included. However, the URLs generated by this never version are different from our current "SEO Optimized URLs". Thus, when we migrate our products to the new version, we must redirect all of the old SEO Optimized URLs to the new SEO Optimized URLs. III. We are open to any suggestions including a PHP solution to drive the build of the redirects. Thus, the job is for you to perform the necessary optimization in an effort to reduce the size of the .htaccess file while ensuring the 301 redirects are optimally defined for all active products and products that have been deactivated within the last 12 months. The following must be considered: 1) Our new site has its own SEO URLs. When we move our products over to the new site, the .htaccess must be modified to add redirects of the OLD SEO URLS to the NEW SEO URLS. 2) Modification must be made to the current redirects of our OLD NON-SEO urls to the NEW SEO URLS. 3) A bacic redirect will be required for everything from [login to view URL] to [login to view URL] 4) Leave the other redirects commands that are currently within the .htaccess. 5) Ensure this file is not larger than the recommended 20K. I will attach the current .htaccess for your review. As you can see within the file, it currently is not all that complicated or large. The file mostly redirects our OLD NON-SEO urls to our current SEO URLS. PS, I need this job completed within 10 days of agreement. Thanks, Dave
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Dave, First off, let me thank you for the EXCELLENT project description. Good descriptions are very hard to find on sites like freelancer. Based on my reading, you need a couple of things to happen. First, redirect all /catalog/* URLs to / -- the basic logic for that is a blanket redirect with regular expression -- something like (this sample is out of my head, and may need some tweaking) RedirectMatch permanent ^/catalog/(.*)$ [login to view URL]$1 This will basically "move" your old URLs in /catalog to the same URL in /. Secondly, shift old style URLs to "friendly" URLs -- that can usually be done in a few powerful rewrite rules. Third, I'm guessing here, but is it possible that some regular expressions might clean up your existing .htaccess rules. Maybe there are a lot of hard-coded manual rules? That's a start... I have been building AND hosting websites for almost 15 years, so dealing with PHP, Apache, SEO, clean URLs, etc is all part of my daily work. (Including a few OSCommerce sites ;-)) I charge $65/hr -- I bid 4 hrs on this task, just to hit the minimum bid amount, but it is possible we can make a big impact with 1-2 hours and go from there.
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Hi, I have 12+ yrs. experience of osCommerce/Cre Loaded. I have already worked on hundreds of oscommerce websites including template integration, module installation and custom module development. I have contributed 3 payment modules (eway, netbilling and ccavenue) to oscommerce community and developed many custom payment, shipping, reports and other modules for my clients. Please also visit the following link to see reviews for my expertise on osCommerce. http://www.freelancer.com/users/feedback_138265.html Thanks for the detailed explanation. Can you please send the existing htaccess so that I can suggest the solution accordingly? Thanks Kavita
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I have read your project details, and I am interested in offering my services. I provide 100% satisfaction guaranteed on all my work. Milestone is required to begin; to be released when the job has been satisfactorily completed. I estimate a 5-7 day turnaround (including weekends) on this project. ftp and cpanel details to your site will be required. Contact me at your soonest convenience so we may get your solution delivered quickly. Thanks, coderXO
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oscommerce expert here. i can handle this SEO job and the site code very well as i know oscommerce code very well and also the SEO urls so i can help you code it accordingly like you need in an effective manner so show me the htaccess file and the site url so we can discuss more into it thanks.
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Of course keeping all urls in .htaccess file is not optimal. I suggest redirecting everything to one php script that will process old urls and redirect users to correct ones.
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Hi, I am a PHP programmer and I have experience working with htaccess redirects. I will be able to create a solution to redirect the old SEO URLs to the new SEO URLs. Also please share the htaccess file which contains the current redirects. Regards, Sukum
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Hi, I (Myself a senior PHP, ASP.NET programmer using C# and VB) have a team having experience of more than 10 years in developing web and mobile applications. I have a team of expert programmers who write robust and bug-free codes at the very first instance. After seeing our quality of work and the cooperation offered to you even after the work has been delivered to you, you’ll come to us again and again to avail our services. I read through the job details extremely carefully and I am absolutely sure that I can do the project very well. I can achieve the results that you are asking for within your timeframe and budget. I am confident I can exceed your expectations and I would love to work on your project. Thanks, Priyanka
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Hello, Experience PHP programmer here, Very good in oscomerce customization. Doing long term direct support works for PHP sites including oscommerce in past few years. Please have a look at my feedback to know my experience and clients words about my work. So many of them hired me more than once. Looking forward for positive reply. Thanks Vineeth
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Hello! I'm migration expert and ready to assist you, please give me access and I will check it for you!. if your new website still in progress I mean URL s part please let me know. Kind Regards Mihran Hayrapetyan
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Hi, can you provide your .htacces for check? .
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I'm able to do this work with my expertise in Apache, PHP and OSCommerce. I'll deliver the work in time with best quality.
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