301 Redirects

[LaughingHorse]

I have been going round and round on this one and hopefully there is an expert in mod_rewrites who can answer this.

My site is structured with top level (lets call it root) pages all with a .php extension

e.g. https://mysite.com/anypage.php (there are around 100 pages like this)

I have moved to a wordpress site, as a sub folder of root, and CubeCart as a subfolder as root

In my wordpress site, I have duplicated the text of the .php pages. A lot of the pages rank really high in the search engines for their terms. And I don't want to lose that ranking.

I know there is a way to redirect an entire site from one domain to another with 301 redirects.

And there is a way to redirect root pages to a subfolder with 301 redirects.

For example I found this

# Redirect domain.com to domain.com/folder/

Example Below…

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^$ /blog/ [R=301]

# end redirect

 

With /blog/ being the sub folder. The problem, is it keeps the .php extension and I would like to strip that away.

WordPress will not let me add extensions so the pages end up showing

https://mysite.com/wp/anypage

Can someone help me with this?