- Go to Cart Settings -> Global Cart Settings
- Click on Search Engine Settings
- From here you will see a text area labeled "Htaccess Overrides"
In the e-commerce industry, the most common need for 301 redirects is to redirect old product urls to new product urls, which helps preserve SEO when switching shopping cart platforms. The example below shows how to redirect http://example.com/old_file_name_123.htm to http://example.com/newcart/newfilename.html:
RewriteRule ^old_file_name_123.htm http://example.com/newcart/newfilename.html/ [L,R=301]
A rule similar to the one above can be copied and pasted into the Htaccess Overrides section of the cart admin and will be placed into the proper section of the carts .htaccess file. This override will also be preserved throughout any other setting changes, so essentially this is a plug-and-play feature.
