I made a mistake — I send you another email.. really sorry

Kind of tired today....

The typical 404 old url is:

www.avocatshorsquebec.org/site/en/contactez-nous.html

All the old addresses have the site folder showing in the url
All the old adresses end with useless .html because it was set in the Configuration of Joomla


The actual root 301 htaccess redirect to the subfolder /site/

# Copy and paste the following code into the .htaccess file
# in the public_html folder of your hosting account
# make the changes to the file according to the instructions.

# Replace avocatshorsquebec.org and /site/ with the real names.

# Redirect to canonical hostname and rewrite to internal site.

# Activate the rewrite engine
RewriteEngine on

# 1. Redirect non-canonical hostame requests to www.avocatshorsquebec.org
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.avocatshorsquebec\.org)?$
RewriteRule (.*) www.avocatshorsquebec.org/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^site\/index\.php$ "www.avocatshorsquebec.org/index.html" [R=301,L]

# 2. Rewrite root request to index file in site
RewriteRule ^$ /site/index.php [L]
#RewriteRule !. /site/index.php [L]
# (pick one of the above two lines, they are equivalent)

# 3. Rewrite requests to site
# If the request has not already been rewritten to /site/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/site/
# and is not a request that is always handled by a file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(site).\.(png|gif|jpe?g|css|js|zip|txt)$
# and does not actually exist as a file or folder
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# rewrite the request to be handled by the folder
RewriteRule (.*) /site/$1 [L]


The joomla htaccess hide the subfolder name

##### RewriteBase set - BEGIN
RewriteBase /site

• configuration.php have —> www.avocatshorsquebec.org as live Site


The 404 error are piling up fast
www.avocatshorsquebec.org/site/en/home-mainmenu-1/187-exercice-de-la-profession-hors-quebec-un-rapport-a-lhiver-2011.html

www.avocatshorsquebec.org/site/en/home-mainmenu-1/156-mot-du-president.html

www.avocatshorsquebec.org/site/en.html?start=4

www.avocatshorsquebec.org/site/en/contactez-nous.html

Even the Feed is not good anymore....
avocatshorsquebec.org/site/en.feed?type=atom

I’m to the point to put back the stupid old scheme to stop the bleeding.....

I didn't have no choice that to revert....

What I did:

• I leave Redj on with you redirection item On — Don’t seem to take effect....
• The Root 301 htacces redirect wasn’t touch
• The Joomla htacces “Base” settings — I take the name of the subfolder out (/site)
• Live Site in configuration.php was return to —> www.avocatshorsquebec.org/site

and Joomla Configuration return to “Add Suffix”

Sadly?

I’m so sorry to send many informations in a short notice, but I was in a panic state when I saw the 404 piling up — Thanks to your component showing them (and their referrer)
Note: Just for the ability to show those errors and the controls of the errors pages your component is now on my list of first install for all my future sites... Really Good- Thanks

I see no problems, and, in fact, will really prefer to move the site from it’s subfolder to the root as it’s always the best way to obtain clean redirect...

In fact, I keep it under the “site” subfolder” because I knew that it will be difficult to redirect all those old address with the “sites” subfolder and the silly “html” at the end to the new address.
I’m far from a pro on redirection by htaccess and RedJ was my only option....

What I think will be the best:
• The site out of “site” subfolder” and in the root with the normal joomla htacces (the one I have now, with my added security) with a clean 301 redirect — I have no problem to do that myself

• Put off the Add suffix to URLs in Joomla Global Config to take out those .html at the end

• Now the problem is to redirect all those old addresses with the now deleted “site” subfolder and ending with the .html suffix to the new clean domain URL...

I need to be sure to be able to do redirect correctly before starting the changes, I lost a bit of hair those few days !!