301 Redirect ?

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17 November 2010, 4:04 pm
chaosicq

301 Redirect ?

Hi
I want to redirect one sites entire domain content to another new domain for a permanent move, but I would like it if when the uses clicks on the old domain that the redirect is automatic instead having to click on a link to get to the new site, Is there anything I can add to make this happen?.

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://www.blablabla.com/
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 174
<html>
<head>
<title>Moved</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Moved</h1>
<p>This page has moved to <a href="http://www.blablabla.com/">http://www.blablabla.com/</a>.</p>
</body>
</html>
17 November 2010, 4:08 pm
GFPC

Do the code in your .htaccess file

Create a .htaccess file in the root of the domain and add his code

RedirectMatch 301 (.*) http://www.blahblah/

All indexd pages in google will direct to the homepage of the new site.

That is one way to do it

(note) - when you hand over the domain to them - they could remove the redirect by the way.
17 November 2010, 4:18 pm
chaosicq

Quote:

Originally Posted by GFPC

Do the code in your .htaccess file

Create a .htaccess file in the root of the domain and add his code

RedirectMatch 301 (.*) http://www.blahblah/

All indexd pages in google will direct to the homepage of the new site.

That is one way to do it

(note) - when you hand over the domain to them - they could remove the redirect by the way.

Thanks for the help, Yes they can change it, but this will give me time to migrate the site and not lose search engine positions e.c.t :-).
17 November 2010, 5:12 pm
GFPC

no problem mate. i understand! Glad i could help a little.

I just checked - it seems to work fine.

One thing though -- all indexed pages from google will land
on that homepage by the way.
17 November 2010, 5:33 pm
Renee

If you want google to reindex your new site so that all the pages redirect to their relevant page on the new site, you'll need to add all the pages and their 301 redirects to the htaccess file..

IMO this is definitely the way to go.

Good luck :)
17 November 2010, 5:58 pm
GFPC

Agreed. I think all urls will need to be the same though.

For example - if you want to move http:/www/blah/review.html

The new site would need the url to be http://www/blah2/review.html

If he had 100s of pages it can be time consuming.

Looking at what he is doing - it seems he is just pointing his site to the new one so all his traffic goes to the new site which has similar pages but not exact.

Doing this on a new domain for sure could work no problem

Quote:

Originally Posted by Renee

If you want google to reindex your new site so that all the pages redirect to their relevant page on the new site, you'll need to add all the pages and their 301 redirects to the htaccess file..

IMO this is definitely the way to go.

Good luck :)
19 November 2010, 2:57 am
best.hands

Quote:

Originally Posted by GFPC

Agreed. I think all urls will need to be the same though.

For example - if you want to move http:/www/blah/review.html

The new site would need the url to be http://www/blah2/review.html

If he had 100s of pages it can be time consuming.

Provided that everything is identical except the domain name, redirection of everything (every page) can simply be done with this code below:

redirect 301 / http://www.newdomain.com/

Where the / right after 301 indicates a top level redirection. This will only work perfectly though when you're using the same folder structures and filenames with the new site as the old site.
19 November 2010, 3:57 am
GFPC

Let me ask you then if i may. I am curious!

Say you have an IP - ex 123.45.67
and domain name abcdefg.com

the domain works fine but the Ip does not. The IP is at the root. The domain in a folder accesssed by the root.

How can you create a .htaccess file that makes the urls look like this.

123.45.67/any-url.com

Where all the domain ulrs will now be read with the ip infront?

Quote:

Originally Posted by best.hands

Provided that everything is identical except the domain name, redirection of everything (every page) can simply be done with this code below:

redirect 301 / http://www.newdomain.com/

Where the / right after 301 indicates a top level redirection. This will only work perfectly though when you're using the same folder structures and filenames with the new site as the old site.
22 November 2010, 6:08 am
best.hands

Quote:

Originally Posted by GFPC

Let me ask you then if i may. I am curious!

Say you have an IP - ex 123.45.67
and domain name abcdefg.com

the domain works fine but the Ip does not. The IP is at the root. The domain in a folder accesssed by the root.

How can you create a .htaccess file that makes the urls look like this.

123.45.67/any-url.com

Where all the domain ulrs will now be read with the ip infront?

That's a pretty much complicated case which I haven't faced before. But let me try to provide you a good answer.

As far as my understanding is concern with a web host cpanel and dns management, you may not need to use a .htaccess with it, but a proper filename and folder structure within your webspace. Do it like this,

- 123.45.67 pointing to the root.
- A folder in the root dir should be named as the domain name. For instance, if you have domain1.com, a folder in the root named domain1.com should exist as well.
- Configure domain1.com domain to use another IP that is also pointing to the same webspace as 123.45.67.
- Configure domain1.com to point to its folder in the root dir.
- all set and you're done.

When done properly, 123.45.67/domain1.com should work as well as domain1.com domain.

Moreover, the reason why this "123.45.67/any-url.com" did not work in the current case you have, I think, because the domain abcdefg.com might be using the IP 123.45.67 and is assigned a folder in the root dir where the IP was set. In this case, accessing 123.45.67/abcdefg.com would return an error since the actual path behind it would look like 123.45.67/abcdefg.com/abcdefg.com where the folder "abcdefg.com" within the "abcdefg.com" folder does not exist.

If that looks confusing, let's have it this way, abcdefg.com = 123.45.67 and is representing an actual path 123.45.67/abcdefg.com/ based on the configuration done. If you are to dial this actually path in the address bar of your browser, you are actually trying to access 123.45.67/abcdefg.com/abcdefg.com/ much like access this abcdefg.com/abcdefg.com/

A cure to this case without using another IP is to duplicate the entire folder the domain is pointing to and storing it within the same folder. But this will result to an awkward case where abcdefg.com/abcdefg.com/ and 123.45.67/abcdefg.com/ are both accessible.

Hope that helps. :eyebrow:
22 November 2010, 11:59 am
chaosicq

One thing that nobody mentioned which I have also done change the google tools account for the website to point to the new one.

As shown here : http://www.google.com/support/webmas...er=83105&hl=en
23 November 2010, 12:17 am
GFPC

It sounds a bit confusing to me.. Let me explain my issue.

I have now 8 dedicated IPS all point to the same root folder.

In the root folder i have folders for each site.

Ex:

IP

123
124
125
126
127
128
ect ect

All these are pointing to the same root!

In that root have folder

abc
def
ghi
jkl
mno
pqr
ect ect

When i type any of the Ips i get 403 errors.

I want each ip to go direct to folder of the domain so it looks like this.

123/abc
124/def
125/ghi
126/jkl
ect ect

It i do a 301 the 123, 124,125 dissappears.
23 November 2010, 7:55 am
satya

If I have to move xxhttp://www.olddomain.comxx to xxhttp://www.newdomain.comxx, I just have to include the code
redirect 301 / http://www.newdomain.com/ in the htaccess file and all follow the same dir & folder structure, all pages will be redirected fine? Plus the website will not lose the google rankings??

Quote:

Originally Posted by best.hands

Provided that everything is identical except the domain name, redirection of everything (every page) can simply be done with this code below:

redirect 301 / http://www.newdomain.com/

Where the / right after 301 indicates a top level redirection. This will only work perfectly though when you're using the same folder structures and filenames with the new site as the old site.