301 redirect

nate2099 · Apr 4th, 2008, 07:48

Hi all,

Wondering how I redirect any page from an old domain to the index page of a new domain in htaccess??

Thanks,

Nathan.

saltedm8 · Apr 4th, 2008, 10:48

this .htaccess will need to be placed on wherever the old domain was hosted

Quote:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

This .htaccess method of redirection works ONLY on Linux servers having the Apache Mod-Rewrite moduled enabled.

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if you have windows hosting, try php

PHP: Select all


<?php
    Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" ); 
    Header( "Location: http://www.new-url.com" ); 
php?>

nate2099 · Apr 5th, 2008, 02:56

cheers

nate2099 · Apr 8th, 2008, 10:20

This doesn't seem to be working. ie:

this page:
http://www.freelancetechaustralia.com.au/contact.htm (and every other page on the domain.. this is the old site)

Should redirect to:
http://www.freelance-crew.com/index.html (this is the new site, with new structure.. the old sites querystrings won't work so it all has to go to the index)

It doesn't so much matter for the contact page, but to redirect to the new site using the old query strings on most other pages will break the new site.

Thanks,

Nathan.