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Hi David,

Thanks.

the htaccess for the site currently looks like this:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.oldsite.com$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^ https://www.newsite.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

The end goal would be to redirect:

http://oldsite.com

http://www.oldsite.com

https://oldsite.com

https://www.oldsite.com

To the new url:

https://www.newsite.com

Thanks for your help.

Hi,

Sorry I may not have explained the issue well enough.

I'm still looking to use https.

I simply want to redirect https://oldsite.com (and http://oldsite.com) to https://newsite.com, but I can seemingly only redirect http traffic with a 301 redirect in the htaccess file.

Thanks.

Hi,

I've just migrated our previous site (siteA) to our new url (siteB) and I've setup 301 redirects from the old url (siteA) to the new (siteB). However, the old url operated on https and users who try to go to the old url with https (https://siteA.com) receive a message that the server cannot be reached, while the users who go to http://siteA.com are redirected to siteB.

Is there a way to 301 redirect https traffic?

Also, from an SEO perspective if the site and all the references on Google search are https://siteA.com does a 301 redirect of http pass the domain authority, etc. or is https required?

Thanks.

Thanks everyone this was very helpful. I think I have it straightened out now. I've set my preferred domain in Google Search Console, and have changed many of the links to match this domain as well. Thanks again.

Hi everyone,

I've been looking around the forum and found some similar topics but none of them have solved my problem.

Anyway, I'm new to SEO and found that when I use Open Site Explorer for the www version of my site I see the links directed to my page, but none of my twitter stats show up. When I do the same for my non-www version. I see my twitter stats, but no links. Facebook seems unchanged. Also, the Page Authority is much higher for the www (I assume because of the links)

It is my understanding that it doesn't matter which version of the domain is used, I just need to pick one and stick with it (on Google Webmaster Tools, etc.). And that I also need to do a 301 redirect for the version that I'm not using.

The issue now is that I have a 301 redirect, and when I type in my url in any version (http, https, www, non-www) it all redirects in the browser without issue. So i know users are getting to the right page, but the Open Site Explorer still sees them as 2 different sites. My concern is that if Open Site Explorer sees it this way then Google may see it this way as well and I could be missing out on potential rankings.

I'm currently doing the redirect in the .htaccess file. The redirect looks like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Any Ideas on what I need to do to properly 301 redirect the site so that my preferred version can get credited with the links,twitter, and Page Authority stats?

Also, I'm using wordpress and it has the URL set to the non-www version of the site. However, I think I would like to change this to the www version because most of the links are directing to www, and I also think people are more familiar with that format.

Anyway, sorry for the long post. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.