URL Redirection

mikem22

Boy am I confused ..
I need to redirect one of my domains to point at another using a 301 redirect. On our old UNIX server, I just added
redirect 301 / http://www.newwever.com/
To the .htaccess file.
I understand that .htaccess can not be implemented on windows and is an Apache based file.
Looking at the Redirects options for the domain, I just have no idea what to put in these boxes (apart from the one that say 301 moved permanently.
If anyone could throw some light on this, it would be appreciated.
regex is not one of my stronger points, so please help!
Mike

roganty

Umm, I'm not sure if this will help you.
In the "Virtual Path Regular Expression" field put ^/.*
Set "If this rule matches" to "Perform an external redirection"
In the "Redirect to" field put the url to the new domain
Uncheck "Append Query String" (Not sure if this is needed or not)
And set "Next Action" as "Stop matching"
in condensed form

^/.* -> Perform an external redirection -> http://newdomain.com -> Stop

Hope that helps!

mikem22

Works perfectly :)
Thank you!
Mike

hyperial

Would this work if I am trying to do the following?
http://oldserver/blog/post1 to http://newserver/blog/post1 ?
I'm wanting to move my blog from an old hostname to a new one and when people hit a specific item on the old one for it to come up on the new one too.

roganty

hyperial wrote
Would this work if I am trying to do the following?
http://oldserver/blog/post1 to http://newserver/blog/post1 ?
I'm wanting to move my blog from an old hostname to a new one and when people hit a specific item on the old one for it to come up on the new one too.

If you are moving your whole website to the new domain, then I think it should work
But if your only moving your blog you could try the following:


^/blog/(.*) -> Perform and external redirection -> http://newdomain.com/blog/$1 -> Stop