Moving Domains

Hi there,

I'm considering moving domains on my vBSEO forum. Is there a tool or resource that would allow me to redirect old-domain links to their corresponding new domain links?

Thanks!

Hello Juan ,

You can create a. .htaccess with the following content within your old domain

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1

Also if you should create a support ticket and request url update on your license.

Thanks! Can you tell me a bit about the impact to our SEO that a potential move like this would make?

Additionally, how quickly could a support ticket be resolved? This will help us in our eventual planning.

We always strongly advise not to change url format or domain name.

Average ticket response time is around 2 hour. However if a staff is online and avaible the ticket can be responded within minutes.

Thank you. Additionally: if I wanted to auto-rewrite just http://www.domain.com/forums/* to http://www.newdomain.com/forums/*, what .htaccess would I create (and where would I put it)? I especially don't want to miss out on any of my paid subscription payments, for example, that would be coming in through my payments.php gateway.

depending on if you cnamed or physically created a new vhost,

you would either
a- remove htaccess from /forums on the old domain (so the root htaccess holds presidence)
or
b- add the same thing as above to the /forums/.htaccess
but, add in /forums

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/forums/$1

That works, except for when people try to go to oldomain.com/forums -- How can I get that olddomain.com/forums to point to newdomain.com/forums ? If they add a parameter (olddomain.com/forums/suchandsuch) it works just fine, but apparently, the actual directory call isn't being redirected. Help!

Hello Juan ,

If you also want your olddomain.com/forums to be redirected , you need to use the .htaccess i provided within your root and delete the one inside forums directory. It will redirect all requests.

Originally Posted by Mert Gökçeimam

Hello Juan ,

If you also want your olddomain.com/forums to be redirected , you need to use the .htaccess i provided within your root and delete the one inside forums directory. It will redirect all requests.

Thanks, Mert, but I *only* want /forums redirected; everything else on my olddomain.com is still being used for local access. How can this be done?

Alternative question:

If I want www.domain.com redirected to domain.subdomain.com (e.g., from Apples.com - apple juice, fruit baskets, nutrition, and more. to apples.fruits.com, keeping in mind that the content on both sides are the same virtual directory), what rewrite rule/policy should I have in place for my .htaccess?

Originally Posted by Kaelon

Thanks, Mert, but I *only* want /forums redirected; everything else on my olddomain.com is still being used for local access. How can this be done?

Any thoughts about this item? Specifically, /forums/anything is redirecting with the .htaccess provided, but not just /forums. Thoughts?

Hello Juan ,

I asked our dev team to the correct redirect rule for both senarios.

Originally Posted by Mert Gökçeimam

Hello Juan ,

I asked our dev team to the correct redirect rule for both senarios.

Thanks, Mert. I appreciate the advice!

Any thoughts about this item? Specifically, /forums/anything is redirecting with the .htaccess provided, but not just /forums. Thoughts?

In order to redirect only one page (olddomain.com/forums/ to newdomain.com) you should create .htaccess in old domain forums/ folder:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.newdomain.com/$1

If I want www.domain.com redirected to domain.subdomain.com (e.g., from Apples.com - apple juice, fruit baskets, nutrition, and more. to apples.fruits.com, keeping in mind that the content on both sides are the same virtual directory), what rewrite rule/policy should I have in place for my .htaccess?

In case if both are pointing to the same folder, .htaccess would be:

Code:

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

Thanks, Oleg. Another question:

My olddomain.com and olddomain.newdomain.com are located in the same physical folder on my server. So using the first .htaccess rule you suggested would cause an infinite loop. Is there a recommended way to accomplish the desired results of enforcing the new URL (olddomain.newdomain.com) without causing the infinite loop?