There are a lot of articles & posts out there that cover the same topic, but as this took me the good part of an hour just to find out, I'm posting it here so I never have to look for it again.
A client changed their website domain address and wanted any person visiting the old domain to be redirected to the new domain.
Why?
I warned that a 301 site gets removed from the Google directory and true to form Google have removed it. Not sure why nobody believed me when I raised the alarm but hey-ho.
How?
I'm going to show you how to do this with a .htaccess file:
- Upload a text file to the root folder of the old domain's website
- Rename it as ".htaccess" (or modify the existing one)
- Add the code as per below.
- Save the change.
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Redirect domain but keep the rest of the URL:
RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mynewdomain.com/ [R=301] # Redirects users from: # http://www.myolddomain.com -> # -> http://www.mynewdomain.com # http://www.myolddomain.com/category/folder/site.php -> # -> http://www.mynewdomain.com # http://www.myolddomain.com/anything -> # -> http://www.mynewdomain.com
- RewriteEngine On
- RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mynewdomain.com/ [R=301]
- # Redirects users from:
- # http://www.myolddomain.com ->
- # -> http://www.mynewdomain.com
- # http://www.myolddomain.com/category/folder/site.php ->
- # -> http://www.mynewdomain.com
- # http://www.myolddomain.com/anything ->
- # -> http://www.mynewdomain.com
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RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L] # Redirects users from: # http://www.myolddomain.com -> # -> http://www.mynewdomain.com # http://www.myolddomain.com/category/folder/site.php -> # -> http://www.mynewdomain.com/category/folder/site.php # http://www.myolddomain.com/anything -> # -> http://www.mynewdomain.com/anything
- RewriteEngine on
- RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
- # Redirects users from:
- # http://www.myolddomain.com ->
- # -> http://www.mynewdomain.com
- # http://www.myolddomain.com/category/folder/site.php ->
- # -> http://www.mynewdomain.com/category/folder/site.php
- # http://www.myolddomain.com/anything ->
- # -> http://www.mynewdomain.com/anything
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