How can we redirect using htaccess and DNS together with Google Sites?

Question

I have updated a site and some of the old links are no longer referring to the right place (404). I wonder how I can do it through DNS and .htaccess.

As I understand Sites does not support redirecting of links like this: example.com/hey-there.html to example.com/welcome (301 redirect).

I am therefore looking to combine Sites with a redirect through DNS settings if that is possible. I have several DNS records active currently which verify ownership of the site (TXT, CNAME and one Web forward of example.com to www.example.com). Now, is it somehow possible to have a redirect of these queries.

Could you please help me out on how this can be done?

Answer 1

To get you started here is a rule in .htaccess to redirect example.com/hey-there.html to example.com/welcome

# Code generated by www.301-redirect.online
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteRule ^example\.com/hey\-there\.html$ /example.com/welcome? [R=301,L]

You can use Htaccess Redirect Generator to generate more of them. Note it does not work with wildcards and I am not associated with it.