301 Redirects Using .htaccess File

First of all, this only works on web servers running on Linux, like Apache. It's no good on a Windows server, which stinks, because I think this is the best way to do redirects because you can manage all the redirects on your entire site from one file, and you don't actually have to create files and directories or leave old ones in place in order for those urls to be redirected.

Here's the basic code you'll put in your .htaccess file, which either should already exist in the root directory of your website ("root directory" meaning the home directory of ...

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