Hi,
First, thanks for a great extention.
I've installed ReDJ and I'm trying to get it to work! But it doesn't want to redirect any old urls to new ones.

Please help out, installed it according to documentation. Also the built in redirect of joomla 2.5.11 does not work either. I thought it maybe was because of the htaccess file, but I tried just now replacing it with the original one from the joomla 2.5.11 package, still no go. Clear cache all the way, to see if that was the problem, still no go... any suggestions?

Hi,

I'm using version 2.5.11 as well and also get absolutely no redirects .

Here's the syntax I used:

From URL: /QR2/*$
To URL: http://{siteurl}/index.php

That did nothing. So then I tried to be explicit:

From URL: www.mychiffoncakes.com/QR2
To URL: www.mychiffoncakes.com/index.php


And that did the same thing, namely:

Not Found

The requested URL /QR2 was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Apache Server at www.mychiffoncakes.com Port 80

I also cleaned the Joomla and browser cache. And the built-in redirect isn't working for me either.

Really appreciate your help, and yes, the extension is great I'm sure. Would love to get to bottom of this... it's been a very frustrating 4 hours .

Thanks!

Thanks, Luigi, for the quick reply!
Here's my htaccess.txt file (.htacess was empty, that's probably the issue, huh? ):

##
# @package Joomla
# @copyright Copyright (C) 2005 - 2013 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved.
# @license GNU General Public License version 2 or later; see LICENSE.txt
##

##
# READ THIS COMPLETELY IF YOU CHOOSE TO USE THIS FILE!
#
# The line just below this section: 'Options +FollowSymLinks' may cause problems
# with some server configurations. It is required for use of mod_rewrite, but may already
# be set by your server administrator in a way that dissallows changing it in
# your .htaccess file. If using it causes your server to error out, comment it out (add # to
# beginning of line), reload your site in your browser and test your sef url's. If they work,
# it has been set by your server administrator and you do not need it set here.
##

## Can be commented out if causes errors, see notes above.
Options +FollowSymLinks

## Mod_rewrite in use.

RewriteEngine On

## Begin - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits.
# If you experience problems on your site block out the operations listed below
# This attempts to block the most common type of exploit `attempts` to Joomla!
#
# Block out any script trying to base64_encode data within the URL.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode[^(]*\([^)]*\) [OR]
# Block out any script that includes a <script> tag in URL.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C)([^s]*s)+cript.*(>|%3E) [NC,OR]
# Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
# Block out any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URL.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})
# Return 403 Forbidden header and show the content of the root homepage
RewriteRule .* index.php [F]
#
## End - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits.

## Begin - Custom redirects
#
# If you need to redirect some pages, or set a canonical non-www to
# www redirect (or vice versa), place that code here. Ensure those
# redirects use the correct RewriteRule syntax and the [R=301,L] flags.
#
## End - Custom redirects

##
# Uncomment following line if your webserver's URL
# is not directly related to physical file paths.
# Update Your Joomla! Directory (just / for root).
##

# RewriteBase /

## Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section.
#
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
#
# If the requested path and file is not /index.php and the request
# has not already been internally rewritten to the index.php script
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php
# and the request is for something within the component folder,
# or for the site root, or for an extensionless URL, or the
# requested URL ends with one of the listed extensions
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /component/|(/[^.]*|\.(php|html?|feed|pdf|vcf|raw))$ [NC]
# and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
# and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical folder
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# internally rewrite the request to the index.php script
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]
#
## End - Joomla! core SEF Section.

Ok, quick update: I put the above content into the .htaccess file... and then it worked!

Thanks, Luigi, for your help!!!