301 domain name to another site
-
I had 2 websites. I decided not to maintain one of them and set it to 301 to my main website. However, i see people getting 404 errors when they land on my main website but with a page name from the old site. How can I set things so that anyone who tries to go to the old site goes to my homepage of my main site?
http://oldsiteB.com/oldpagename sends them to http://siteA.com//oldpagename = 404 - I want them to go directly to homepage on siteA.
-
Try to put that .htaccess on the old site. It will rewrite the asked URL before it can be processed by the server. It will rewrite the request to contain the new domain.
On the new domain, you already have the code to process these requests.
Try that and report back. It probably works after that.
-
No, I put it on the .htaccess on the new site. I had 301'd the whole old site in my domain name manager. Maybe I should not do that so I can put an .htaccess file right on the old domain?
-
Ok, just to be sure: you have placed this .htaccess on the old site. Right?
If that is the case and you've pasted the exact code i mentioned, then something else might be causing the issue.
Also: be sure to try this with a browser that hasn't visited the site in a while. It happens to me sometimes that the browser will simply remember the redirect and not follow the .htaccess.
Hope any of this helps!
-
Actually, I tried that, and the result is still
Old URL: "www.myoldsite.com/my-page/"
New URL: "www.mynewsite.com/404.html -
Yes, that helps, thank you!
-
Ok so i had to test this one because i wasn't sure but you would have to remove "$1" from the last line.
That piece actually will add the file path of the original domain and add it to the domain you are redirecting the visitor to.
So this "www.myoldsite.com/my-page/"
Will become "www.mynewsite.com/my-page/"Since you want it this way:
Old URL: "www.myoldsite.com/my-page/"
New URL: "www.mynewsite.com/"Removing the "$1" should do the trick.
Is this an answer to your question?
Bas
-
Can I use this option and somehow direct all traffic from old site to my new home page? I tried this and if someone was trying to find a specific page on the old site they get a 404 on the new.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^OLDSITE.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.OLDSITE.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://NEWSITE/$1 [L,R=301,NC] -
Hi,
You have 2 methods that i would use:
Method #1: using .htaccess
Option A: redirect one specific URL to a new specific URL:
Redirect 301 /old/old.html http://NEWSITE/new.htmlNote: 'old/old.html' has to be without the domain name: so just the directory + page.
Option B: redirect an entire directory to a new specific URL:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^OLDSITE.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.OLDSITE.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://NEWSITE/$1 [L,R=301,NC]Note: the second line of that example has to be without 'www'.
Method #2: using PHP
If you have one header-file, you can place this code in the top of that php-file:
header( "Status: 301 Moved Permanently" ); header( "Location: http://NEWSITE" ); exit(0); ?>Would that provide an answer for you?
Yours,
Bas
Got a burning SEO question?
Subscribe to Moz Pro to gain full access to Q&A, answer questions, and ask your own.
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
Old site name showing in SERPs
Hi all, We've recently re-launched one of our sites with a substantial redesign, refreshed content, meta data, descriptions and functionality. We noticed in SERPs that some of the page titles are showing the old name for the site, which hasn't been used for a few years and the site's been through a few updates and a URL change since then. All the meta titles showing up as they should in crawls through Search Console and Moz and it's my understanding that if Google were pulling a cached version of a title it would have gone for a more recently cached one? Any thoughts on why Google's turned back the clock on our site's name would be greatly appreciated! -Jamie
Technical SEO | | JamieCMF0 -
Use keywords that has another keyword in it for another link
Hi, I have these two links: A1 & A2 and the keywords for them are these: Pest control for A1 Pest control service for A2 is google smart enough to differentiate these two & rank the exact page for them accordingly? or does google guess pest control keyword in A2 link as well? please help me with this issue. & the same with these : termite inspection & termite inspections Arizona!! many thanks Shervin
Technical SEO | | Shervin0 -
Changing Domain Name
Hi all, A client has just got their .edu domain and they want to change their current domain name (a .com) to this new .edu domain. The domain's CMS is Wordpress. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but basically I will need to create a new site (but they want to keep current design), move everything across to the new domain name, and 301 URL per URL? What about all the citations that the old URLs have gotten? The website is listed on Google listings/maps for some of their local keywords. Is there anyway to preserve this? Thank you all in advance.
Technical SEO | | EdwardDennis0 -
Rewrite rules from one domain to another one
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
Technical SEO | | bobrock40 -
Static site to wordpress - avoiding 301 redirects
Moving our static website to wordpress, pages currently end in the .htm extension and for reasons of me having to do all the moving myself and wanting to preserve link equity is there any way I can run the pages with a .htm extension in Wordpress? Tried using a plug-in by Daddy Design but it seems a bit hit and miss at times. I basically need to keep the url's the same as I will not be able to get the vast majority of my links altered to the new pages, plus I am doing this by myself!
Technical SEO | | Jon-C0 -
We have been keeping other sites on our domain while we build them for clients and not taking them off afterwards
So when I look in wmt its telling me our site is about fish oil etc when we are web designers. We have blocked these pages in robots text and removed them. WMT is showing 500 errors in crawl errors and telling us we have health issues on our site. what should we do and how do i bulk select these errors is wmt to mark as fixed (if they are fixed)
Technical SEO | | duncan2740 -
Does having the local area name in a domain effect your results when branching out?
We have a domain which performs well within the local search and has got good authority and trust but we are now moving further afield to rank for keywords country wide. Our current domain contains our local area, does this effect your chances of ranking for broader searches? You don't seem to see many general searches bring domains up with the location keywords within their domain.
Technical SEO | | DragonsDesign0 -
If I redirect my WordPress blog to my main site, will it help my main site's SEO?
I have separate sites for my blog and main website. I'd like to link them in a way that enables the blog to boost my main site's SEO. Is there an easy way to do this? Thanks in advance for any advice...
Technical SEO | | matt-145670