Check 301 redirects in htaccess file
Dec 16, 2011 · 1 minute readCategory: php
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So you might create a whole load of .htaccess rules which you want to verify, either before or after implementing them.
Rules like :
RewriteRule ^top-level-category/old-category/product-name-p-3944.html$ new-product-name.html
I wrote this bash snippet to do just that - here’s the validate the pages you are redirecting to are valid (200) :-
for f in cut -f3 -d' ' .proposed-htaccess; do
curl -I -v http://www.mydomain.co.uk/$f 2>&1 > /dev/null | grep ‘HTTP/1.1 ’ | sed s/‘.*1.1 ‘// | grep 200 > /dev/null || echo $f failed to fetch
done
Then, once you have got the .htaccess uploaded you can verify that they are indeed rewriting should you wish :-
for f in cut -f3 -d' ' .proposed-htaccess; do
curl -I -v http://www.mydomain.co.uk/$f 2>&1 > /dev/null | grep ‘HTTP/1.1 ’ | sed s/‘.*1.1 ‘// | grep 301 > /dev/null || echo $f was not a 301.
done