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started by Niemann Lynggaard on 30 May 13
started by Niemann Lynggaard on 30 May 13
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started by Niemann Lynggaard on 30 May 13
If you have to move a internet site from 1 domain to an additional, it will mean that all the hyperlinks pointing to your old website would now be lost and would generate the dreaded 404 error when visitors came in through old search engine listing or links.
The very best way to preserve your links, and have guests end up on their required web page is to setup a redirect from the old domain to the new one particular.
In this example, we are going to assume that we use to have a domain referred to as OLDSITE.COM and for some explanation we have to move every little thing across to NEWSITE.COM
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The first up, dont kill the hosting for the old web site but leave it operating for some time. This will then allow us to redirect visitors from the old internet site to the new website.
A 301 redirect just tells search engines that go to your website that the old URL has now permanently changed to one more URL. When the search engines find the 301 redirect they will commence to convert all the old links in their index across to the new location.
This will take some time and on site internet sites, this may possibly take months to have the search engines convert all the old links across to the new places.
An .htaccess file is absolutely nothing far more than a basic text file that contains guidelines for the web server that run on that hosting account.
On your Pc, start off a copy of NOTEPAD (This can be accomplished by going Commence->Accessories->Notepad) and edit your existing .htaccess file or to produce a new a single. DONT use Word or any other word processing software to open the file, simply because these packages have the horrible habit of inserting funny characters in file that will result in the .htaccess file to not function appropriately.
If your new web sites structure is exactly the identical as the old web site, then just spot the following line in your .htaccess file
Redirect 301 save the file, and FTP this file up into your sites primary account. On most Linux based systems, this is the /public_html/ directory
Now, anytime a visitor (be it a human or a search engine bot) comes to your old domain, they will be redirect to your new site. So if they came seeking for a file named stuff.html (old URL would be www.oldsite.com/stuff.html) they would get automatically redirected to www.newsite.com/stuff.html
This is the easiest way to move an whole website from 1 domain to another
If the structure of the new website is various from the old a single, then we will need to map each and every old URL to its corresponding new place. This also applies if you determine to change the structure of your internet site, and you want to preserve the links from your old structure and map them to their new location.
If you have a URL that was www.oldsite.com/dogtraining/ and you wanted to redirect guests to www.newsite.com/information/dog-training.html you would location the following in your .htaccess file.
Redirect 301 /dogtraining/ format is:
Redirect 301 old-place new-location
The old-location is the path to the old location (minus the domain name)
The new-place is the full path to final location (it need to consist of the totally qualified domain name as nicely).
This signifies that when every single a visitor comes in on the old URL (www.oldsite.com/dogtraining/) the internet server will redirect them to the new URL of (www.newsite.com/information/dog-training.html)
If you have multiple areas that you want to redirect, then you have to have a number of redirects set up. With one redirect per line. An instance may look like this:
Redirect 301 /dogtraining/ 301 /policedogtraining/ 301 /dogtrainingvideos/ is time consuming setting up 301 redirect, but if your site had beneficial incoming links, then its worth spending the time to preserve these links and hold your web site ranking as effectively as it employed to and to keep your site lucrative.