Title: Quick mod_rewrite question
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Quick mod_rewrite question

 *  [recog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/recog/)
 * (@recog)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quick-mod_rewrite-question/)
 * I recently started a new site, and I had a change of heart as to permalink structure(
   I know, I know, their supposed to be *permanent*).
 * Anyway, there aren’t a whole lot of posts affected by the change, but most of
   them have been added to google using the old link structure. So… I set up a mod_rewrite
   redirect in .htaccess:
 * `RewriteRule ^archives/1/first-post-ever/$ http://www.recycledcognition.com/2005/
   03/22/first-post-ever/ [L]`
 * It works, in that when I go to:
 * [http://www.recycledcognition.com/archives/1/first-post-ever/](http://www.recycledcognition.com/archives/1/first-post-ever/)
 * I get sent to the right page (which now resides at: /2005/03/22/…)
 * The problem is that the address bar still shows the old (/archives/1/…) address,
   rather than the address to which it was redirected. Is there any way to avoid
   this, and have the address bar display the new url? Thanks,
 * –recog
 * [http://www.recycledcognition.com/](http://www.recycledcognition.com/)

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 *  [eridan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eridan/)
 * (@eridan)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quick-mod_rewrite-question/#post-183682)
 * replace the [L] with [R] (Redirect)
 *  Thread Starter [recog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/recog/)
 * (@recog)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quick-mod_rewrite-question/#post-183684)
 * Thank you very much!
 * –recog
 * [http://www.recycledcognition.com/](http://www.recycledcognition.com/)

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quick-mod_rewrite-question/#post-183684)
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