Title: Redirect help needed
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Redirect help needed

 *  [Kathy_P](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kathy_p/)
 * (@kathy_p)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-help-needed/)
 * I switched from Movable Type 2.661 to WordPress 1.5 a few months ago. My MT blog
   is still up and I notice it’s still getting quite a few hits from Google, so 
   I want to set up a redirect. I have looked in the [Codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_from_Movable_Type_to_WordPress#Preserving_Permalinks),
   and the information there is a bit confusing to me, partly because my MT blog
   was in a subdomain and my WP blog is not, and partly because I seem to fall into
   two “if” categories. I’ll start from the top of the Codex entry and work my way
   down.
 * “Matt’s method uses the .htaccess file for redirection.”
 * Except I don’t see any mention of the .htaccess file after this sentence.
 * “. . . have it output to redirect.php in your WP root directory”
 * Do I need to create this file before MT outputs to it? Or will MT create it when
   it does the outputting?
 * Now a few examples are in order:
 * This url in MT [http://weblog.coldclimategardening.com/archives/2004_09.html#000326](http://weblog.coldclimategardening.com/archives/2004_09.html#000326)
   (
   the tail end of that url is /2004_09.html#000326)
 * Is represented by the following url in my WordPress blog
    [http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2004/09/15/huh](http://www.coldclimategardening.com/2004/09/15/huh)
 * So it seems to me that I fall under two “ifs”: entry IDs padded with zero and
   extension is .html. [I just saw that it could be interpreted that the .html “
   if” only applies to those who used dirify in their post titles, which I did not.
   But since I misunderstood this the first 5 times I read it, I’d like to have 
   this new understanding confirmed.] So I use the padded zeroes Redirect line. 
   Should this code be all on one line, instead of wrapped, as it appears to be 
   in the Codex?
 * After creating the MT template and having it output to redirect.php, then what?
   Am I done? Or are there missing steps?

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-help-needed/#post-204428)
 * Here are two more tutorials that may help:
 * [http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~ayman/blog/archives/2004/06/13/moveable-type-redirects-to-wordpress/](http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~ayman/blog/archives/2004/06/13/moveable-type-redirects-to-wordpress/)
 * [http://dan.hersam.com/archives/2004/10/05/converting-links-from-mt-to-wordpress](http://dan.hersam.com/archives/2004/10/05/converting-links-from-mt-to-wordpress)
 * Carthik’s tutorial also links to three work-arounds for your issue:
 * [http://blog.carthik.net/vault/2004/05/14/movabletype-to-wordpress/](http://blog.carthik.net/vault/2004/05/14/movabletype-to-wordpress/)
 * Hope that helps!
 *  Thread Starter [Kathy_P](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kathy_p/)
 * (@kathy_p)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-help-needed/#post-204665)
 * I thank you for the links, Macmanx, but does your providing them imply that the
   first method, which is in the Codex, won’t work for me?
 * I don’t know much about .htaccess except that if you do something wrong it can
   really screw up your site. I would like somebody to tell me if the fact that 
   my MT url is a subdomain and the WP url is in the root makes any difference, 
   and if it does, what modification to either the Codex fix or Dan Hersham’s fix
   do I need to make? And does the fact that all the links above were using a WordPress
   version earlier than 1.5 make any difference?

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-help-needed/#post-204665)
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