Redirecting Pages During Site Migration
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Hi everyone,
We are changing a website's domain name. The site architecture will stay the same, but we are renaming some pages. How do we treat redirects? I read this on Search Engine Land:
The ideal way to set up your redirects is with a regex expression in the .htaccess file of your old site. The regex expression should simply swap out your domain name, or swap out HTTP for HTTPS if you are doing an SSL migration.
For any pages where this isn’t possible, you will need to set up an individual redirect. Make sure this doesn’t create any conflicts with your regex and that it doesn’t produce any redirect chains.
Does the above mean we are able to set up a domain redirect on the regex for pages that we are not renaming and then have individual 1:1 redirects for renamed pages in the same .htaccess file? So have both? This will not conflict with the regex rule?
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That's good to know! Thanks!
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Hi Nikki,
You're absolutely right. There will be a domain level http > https redirect in place within the htaccess file and page to page redirects.
Any page to page redirects that sit below that rule can be put in manually and will be caught **after **the domain level rule and this will not conflict.
All the best,
Sean
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