Do you want to redirect AMP permalink to the Non-AMP URL? This guide is going to help you.
You might know well, Twitter has also started serving AMP pages. Therefore, using redirection is very important to prevent from 404 hits for old AMP WordPress permalink. After deactivating the plugin, you will receive Error 404 for all AMP permalinks.
To fix this problem, you need to setup a redirect from the AMP to NON-AMP(canonical) URL.
- Go to Yoast SEO Plugin > Tools > File Editor
Yoast SEO Tools > File Editor - In the .htaccess field add AMP to Non-AMP path redirection rule
- and Save changes
# Redirect from AMP to non-AMP path
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/amp(.*)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wp-content/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^ %1/ [R=301,L]
Important changelog IST 3:15 PM 5/11/2017
* Excluded wp-content, concerning images which may contains ‘amp’ in the name.
What if you don’t have control to .htaccess?
Alternatively, you can also prevent 404 by doing a redirect from AMP to non-AMP path (canonical) pages using a free plugin called “Redirection“.
- Install a free plugin called “Redirection”
- Go to WordPress Dashboard > Tools > Redirection
- Add a new 301 Redirection
- Keep source
/(.*)\/amp - Target URL
https://www.yourdomain.com/$1
Kindly note: These steps should be implemented after disabling/noindexing AMP properly.
I hope this guides helps in fixing 404 for AMP URLs. If you have any specific query, please feel free to ask. Thanks!
Hi Gulshan,
Thanks for sharing this useful info on rectifying the AMP page errors on how to remove 404 error pages after disabling the AMP plugin
Please post about more amp errors like user modified javascript errors and user modified css types of amp errors, I am struggling to rectify them, my webmaster reports are flooded with this errors.
Thanks in advance!!
Hi Bro,
Shall I know its rewrite the .htaccess files are best or we need to use the redirect plugin?
Which option is the best bro?
Can you share the opinion bro?
Thank you
I would recommend using .htaccess method for redirecting from AMP to Non-AMP permalinks. It is safe.
Thank you so much for clarify it. bro.
I will do the same on my website as soon.
Hi Gulshan!
I read your post but I got a little stuck where you show the .htaccess field because mine looks different than yours, mine starts as follows:
# Use PHP56 Single php.ini as default
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php56s .php
# BEGIN W3TC Browser Cache
Do you think it’ll still work?
The other question is what you mean when you put:
Important changelogs IST 3:15 PM 5/11/2017
* Excluded wp-content path concerning images which may contain ‘amp’ in the name.
Would you please explain what that means? Do we have to do something else with that info?
Thank you! I really appreciate your help!
Hi,
Thanks for the comment. Let me explain you in the detail. When I had written “AMP to non-AMP redirect” code for the first time, it was
# Redirect from AMP to non-AMP pathRewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/amp(.*)$
RewriteRule ^ %1/ [R=301,L]
But after few months, I noticed that some of my images with file name “amp” were not loading.
That’s why, I decided to exclude wp-content path completely.
So, as per my current knowledge, below code is correct and it should work for you.
# Redirect from AMP to non-AMP pathRewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/amp(.*)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wp-content/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^ %1/ [R=301,L]
Here,
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wp-content/(.*)$means redirection is excluded for static files of wp-content. path.I had forget to update my screenshot after updating this thing in the changelogs.
Thanks for reminding. Due to your question, I felt encouraged to update the screenshot.
Now, it is from Old to New.
Feel free to use this code, it should work for you. You should add this code just above # BEGIN W3TC Browser Cache since you are using a Cache plugin.
If you have any more queries, please feel free to ask.
Thanks & Regards,
Gulshan
Thank Gulshan! I am not very tech about stuff like this. Do you think this system works no matter what type of plugins a website has installed ( I mean compatibility) or the type of robot.txt someone has set up?
As I don’t know much about this stuff I want to be sure I won’t screw my site even more lol. A girl put that AMP plugin on my website saying it would help with my ranking and it was worse! all the tables on my website look completely wrong.
Thanks Gulshan!
Hi dear,
Just for removing AMP from Google, kindly note – Following above tutorial is not required, as I said in my last article
https://www.gulshankumar.net/remove-amp/. Above mentioned step is completely optional. Please check my last article if you have missed reading it.
Thanks
Sorry I was referring to the plugin Real-Time Find and Replace, I should’ve asked this question on the previous page. My mistake.
If you are using Yoast Plugin, just enter the fix provided here in the advanced redirect section of Yoast and it works like charm
thank you very much for such a wonderfull information, sir
this is 100% working solution
# Redirect from AMP to non-AMP path
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/amp(.*)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wp-content/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^ %1/ [R=301,L]
how many days this code need to be place there
as i am not using AMP further
As long, you want to redirect AMP visitor to normal pages, to avoid 404.
Thanks a lot, Gulshan. You have helped me a lot. Thanks
Hello dear,
I am so glad it was helpful. Thanks a lot for your comment.
Hi, I love this except when I test links to my site from SERPS it still takes me to the AMP version of the page. i.e. the URL is actually pointing to a Google server such as https://google.com/amp/s/mypagepath. Is this just because I need to wait until Google de-indexes the AMP version and restores the versions of my pages that point to my server?
It seems you accidentally deactivated plugin, you shouldn’t. Please read my post again.