301 Redirecting Domains

I have a ton of domains I want to go through and 301 redirect to make sure none of the current redirects I am using on those are causing my Google problems.

For example:

I own v6mustangs.com and want to 301 redirect to mustangevolution.com what do I need to add to .htaccess?

.htaccess in your forum directory:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mustangevolution\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mustangevolution.com/forum/$1 [R=301,L]

.htaccess in your root:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mustangevolution\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mustangevolution.com/$1 [R=301,L]

I mean I want to redirect v6mustangs.com to Mustangevolution.com... unless I am missing something... just replace v6mustangs.com in the first line?

No, that will redirect anything NOT mustangevolution.com.

ah ok

!= not

Yea I didnt catch that the first time

I have figured out how to redirect requests for pages that WERE residing in a directory called forum. They now properly go to www.domain.com/.....

The part i have NOT figured out is the syntax to insure that any pages that come in WITHOUT the www. ie, domain.com/..... will have the WWW. prepended to the URL.

I'm almost there....

Originally Posted by Keith Cohen

.htaccess in your forum directory:

Code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mustangevolution\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mustangevolution.com/forum/$1 [R=301,L]

.htaccess in your root:

Code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mustangevolution\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mustangevolution.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Originally Posted by LarryEitel

The part i have NOT figured out is the syntax to insure that any pages that come in WITHOUT the www. ie, domain.com/..... will have the WWW. prepended to the URL.

The code I posted (and you quoted) does exactly that.

Goes to show how much I have to learn. Seems to do the trick.

By the way, can you tell me why the page loads and then reloads again. Is it reloading as it encounters different rules? Or does the page load AFTER it evaluates any/all the rules and conditions in the .htaccess.

Please appreciate that one of the reasons I purchased vbseo was the education I would receive on SEO. Thank you for the excellent support and service. I just got things going last night and even on a fairly 'hacked' vb 3.6 beta, vbseo runs with out a hiccup.

Not sure about the loading/reloading. Did you put the commands above the vBSEO commands?

Yes as a matter of fact, these are all the commands that occur before vbseo commands:

PHP Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.noblood\.org
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.noblood.org/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^forum/(.*) http://www.noblood.org/$1 [L,R=301]

# -FrontPage-
IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti* 


Do you see anything I could/should remove or rearrange?

I'm dumb, Fixed it!

Originally Posted by Crow

I'm dumb, Fixed it!

I'm Brandon, nice to meet ya

Thanks for this thread, I can use the posted code