Help with 301 getting error 500

[likeorganic]

I redesigned my site and eliminated some pages. For the pages I eliminated I put in a 301 redirect in the .htacess file. Now I get an error 500 for the site when the reditects are taken out the website is fine I have contacted customer support about this several times I basically get the run around.

My question is there anything I can do on my end to redirect the indexed deleted pages to the new pages? Any suggestions or help would be appreated I really do not know much about servers.

[wige]

What is the redirect rule, as you entered it in the .htaccess file?

[likeorganic]

Hello under the coding that was there I entered the lines below and get the error when i remove it the site works fine.

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redirect 301 /lt1%20throttle%20body%20bypass.html
http://www.lt1tips.com/lt1-throttle-body-bypass.html

redirect 301 /about%20us.html http://www.lt1tips.com/about-us.html

redirect 301 /cooling%20fan%20mod.html http://www.lt1tips.com/articles.html

redirect 301 /how%20to.html http://www.lt1tips.com/articles.html

redirect 301 /hypertect%20lt1%20thermostat.html http://www.lt1tips.com/hypertect-lt1-thermostat.html

redirect 301 /ls1%20throttle%20body%20bypass.html http://www.lt1tips.com/ls1-throttle-body-bypass.html

redirect 301 /mobil%201%20cap%20and%20label.html http://www.lt1tips.com/products.html

redirect 301 /mobil%201%20oil%20label.html http://www.lt1tips.com/products.html

redirect 301 /mobil%201%20oil%20cap.html http://www.lt1tips.com/mobil1-oil-cap.html

redirect 301 /mrgasket%20thermostat.html http://www.lt1tips.com/mrgasket-thermostat.html

redirect 301 /rpo%20decoding.html http://www.lt1tips.com/regular-production-codes.html

redirect 301 /rpo%20decoding%20page%202.html

http://www.lt1tips.com/regular-production-codes-page-1.html


redirect 301 /rpo%20decoding%20page%203.html

http://www.lt1tips.com/regular-production-codes-page-1.html

[wige]

The last two rules look like they are the problem. There can not be a line break in the rule.

[Jean-Luc]

Hi,

I agree with wige about the line breaks.

On top of that, I don't think you can use %20 within the rules. Replace each %20 by a space and use ". Example:

Replace

redirect 301 /about%20us.html http://www.lt1tips.com/about-us.html

by

redirect 301 "/about us.html" http://www.lt1tips.com/about-us.html

Jean-Luc

[likeorganic]

Hey , I want to thank the both of you for helping me when my own hosting company techs are idiots . I removed the line break and the %20 and put in the quotation marks and wha la it redirects.

Thanks a million
Mike

[wainrob]

I think this is not a client side problem, but i know you can resolve it by looking at your logs carefully and analyze it.