Changing Domains: Directing Old Site to the New Site with htaccess

For SEO purposes, in most cases it is advisable to maintain your current domain name.

However, if you decide to change it, you need to 301 redirect the traffic from the old domain to the new.

To do so, you just need to add (or edit) a htaccess file to the root of the old site. The contents of the .htaccess should be the following:

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Replace www.domain.com with the domain of your new site.

Any page request on the old site, will automatically get sent to the same page on the new domain.

This helps save you from losing traffic during a domain change, and also helps the search engines discover the new location of the content.

Thanks man

Hi Baitona,

You can achieve that by using the rule that comes in the vBSEO .htaccess, just replace domain.com with your domain.

Can the same thing be achieved by just parking the old domain, setting up right nameservers for it, and having this code in new domain/site's htaccess

[How to] Setup www.yourdomain.com or yourdomain.com (www vs. non-www) - With .htaccess 301 redirects

It would redirect all parked domains to the new domain taking care of all pages too, is that correct?

thanks

i am changing my domain name google webmaster tools says we should take care of internal links too will this take care of everything ?

edit:-

ok i placed this now all links point to new domain but strange when i come to site from google search results i still see old domain :(, i have parked old domain , is that way correct ?

is this the same thing we use in subdomains too?
I'm trying it out and it doesn't seem to work correct
this is what I want to do

http://old.site.com
to
http://new.site.com/category/widgets/

thx

ps.. this is on a wordpress blog

Originally Posted by marco1

Yes Brandon it should work

Hello,
It didn't work for me.

if you went to
old.site.com/about/
it would go to
new.site.com/category/widgets/about/

I just want all visitors going to
old.site.com/{any page}
to be sent to
new.site.com/category/widget/

can this be done with an htaccess redirect or a php redirect inside a blank index.php page?

thanks