acatalog

[EdHarrison]

I know it has come up before and there seems to be no definitive answer I can find, I would really like to see acatalog gone from my URL's - is there a way to do this via HTACCESS?

thank you

[feemish]

This is changed in Network Settings : Online store folder name : Change

However changing this once you have been up and running for a while will lose all your pages google ranks... unless you do redirects for each one.

[EdHarrison]

I still think it is worthwhile long term, can anyone recommend a developer / sellerdeck partner who can implement this and the relevant redirect?

[Goz]

Change the Network Settings as feemish suggests then add a .htaccess file to the root of your website (or edit it if it already exists).

You want something like this :

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^harrisontelescopes\.co\.uk\/acatalog [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.harrisontelescopes\.co\.uk\/acatalog [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/harrisontelescopes\.co\.uk\/telescopes\/$1 [L,R=301,NC]

Not tested (obviously!) but I have used it on sites where we've done this!! You might want to put www into the RewriteRule if you want to force www rather than non-www

[EdHarrison]

Right - I have tried numerous htaccess files found for removing a subfolder on stack overflow etc but none seem to like sellerdeck, is there something I am missing?


The one for http tp https I have works so it can be done but sellerdeck seems to want to hold on to acatalog - a lot!

[meden]

Are you to actually remove the catalog subfolder (not possible) or just redirect to a renamed one?

[EdHarrison]

Renaming is fine to, to astronomy would work for us - having trouble myself and finding somebody to do the work!

[meden]

You need to change the folder name in network settings as has been suggested, then use the htaccess file that Goz posted - just alter the folder name from telescopes to astronomy (in the htaccess)

[EdHarrison]

We tried - Goz kindly tried to but we could not get it to work...I think it may be becuase I already have htaccess for http to https.

[meden]

oh right, sorry - I thought you'd perhaps missed the first step

[chickenhouseman]

You could redirect each individual one in ht access if you can't do a bulk redirect - redirect 301 /acatalog/filename https://www.rest of the new filename. If you ad campaign tracking to the redirect url you'll be able to see in the analytics which ones are actually redirecting traffic - after a few months you can dump the ones that aren't of any benefit unless they show up in the google search console as missing - these would be the ones that may be adding some link juice.

[EdHarrison]

Thanks, I have contacted a few developers now with this and it is clear that it is either not practical for them or as I fear the interest in desktop is fading - barely anyone is on this forum these days.