Rewrite rules from one domain to another one

[bobrock4]

I have moved he site from a server to another one, changing the domain name. The page names are the same, so in every urls you will have only a differnce in the domain name not in the rest of url.

I would like to use rewriterule in the htaccess file to tell to everyone, especially to search engines, that I have now new urls.

I have found this code, but I'm not sure it could be the right one in my case

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ http://nuovodominio/$1 [R=301]

Thanks to anyone could help me. Ciao, bob

[bobrock4]

Very helpful Robert. Thank you and ciao. Bob

[RobertFisher]

Bobrock4

First, you need to 301 url to url as a best practice. Second, you need to understand that the more difficult issue is you changed domain name and that may cause Google, etc. to take a little longer to credit the 301 (due to bad practices in the past). That said, there is a great resource on moz that considers whether you are on a LAMP stack or microsoft, etc.

The link is in Learn SEO  and is better than just giving you a rewrite rule as it will allow you to comprehend what is happening and why.

I hope you find this helpful.

Robert