I have gone through several domain iterations on a wordpress blog and want to get old links redirected to the new domain. Initially the blog was in
olddomain.com/blog/
Now the blog is at the root level of
newdomain.com
The old domain is set up as a domain alias of the new domain, it is not forwarded.
If anyone visits the site from
olddomain.com/blog/
I need that to redirect to
newdomain.com/
Thanks for your help.
If you are running an apache web server you can just do it vía a 301 redirect in a .htaccess file
- Go to you olddomain.com FTP root
- Create or edit .htaccess file
Add following lines
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^blog/* http://www.newdomain.com/ [R=301,L]
But this just redirect anything to the new domain, if you want to be "SEO friendly" (conserve canonical URLs) you will have to define a bit complex rule, take a look here: http://www.ksl-consulting.co.uk/301-redirect-examples.html
If you're not strictly limited to .htaccess and have the option to modify VirtualHost
configuration for olddomain.com
you can add this to the configuration block:
RewriteEngine on
RedirectMatch 301 ^/blog/(.*) http://newdomain.com/$1
This assumes newdomain.com
is a separate VirtualHost
and we're leveraging that for domain matching to prevent a redirect loop when the source is in a common folder.