WordPress rebuild – 301 redirect old pages (*.php) to pretty permalinks

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Here is what I need to do:

old pages are mydomain.com/something.php

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new pages are rebuilt in WordPress identified using pretty permalinks so they are mydomain.com/something/

I need to figure out what the rewrite rule should look like. I have crawled the web and can’t find anything exactly like it.

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  1. Something like:

    RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule   ^(.*).php$ $1/ [R=permanent]

    The (.*) is a “group” of characters before the .php, and $1 refers to that group of characters. So just add a slash to the group and send the browser to the new URL with an HTTP code 301 (permanent redirect)

  2. Try this:

    RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

#Ignore index.php 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(wp-login|wp-admin|wp-includes)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*).php$
RewriteRule ^(.*).php$ $1/ [R=301,L]

#"Standard" WordPress Rewrite Stuff
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/catalog
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]