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Why 301 rather than 302?

301 means “moved permanently”: the search engine passes the accumulated authority to the new URL and eventually drops the old one. 302 says “temporarily” — the old URL stays primary and rankings do not transfer. The costliest migration mistake is using 302 instead of 301 and then wondering why traffic collapsed.

How do I avoid an infinite loop?

A loop happens when a URL redirects to itself or two rules point at each other. We skip lines where the old and new URLs match and warn you about it. Still, verify after deployment: open the site in a private window, then run a few URLs through our redirect checker. More than two hops in a row means something is wrong with the rules.

Where exactly do I paste the rules?

On Apache, into the .htaccess file in the site root, right at the top, before the CMS rules. Create the file if it does not exist. On Nginx the rules go inside the server block of the configuration, and after the change you need to reload the server with nginx -s reload. Always back up the file first: a syntax error in .htaccess takes the whole site down with a 500 error.

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