IP forwarding

dwaned

Not to sure if this is the right place to post this, so sorry in advance if not.

A friend has a web site up and runnning for about a year now, he's setting up a new one but wants anyone who logs on to his old site to be redirected directly to his new site.
Can anyone tell me the easiest and safest way to do this?? I have no idea about his setup, all I know is that the guy he had doing it fell out with him and left him in the dark...

Thanks

steve-hosting36

Depends really - his host should support Domain Aliases - if so, simply add the odd domain as an alias to the new one, and make sure the domains DNS servers are the hosts.

Alternatively, if the old domain is on a linux/unix based hosting plan that supports it, you could use a .htaccess file to redirect users to the new site.

Very hard to advise without knowing the current set-up.

mneylon

Setting up a redirect using a .htaccess is probably the sanest way of doing it if you want the search engines etc., to follow the links from the old site to the new one

Here's a howto:
http://www.irishwebmasterforum.com/server-technical-adminstration-tips-queries/90-redirecting-your-old-domain-using-mod_rewrite.html

obrienb

Use a META redirect tag in your header.

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" url=http://www.yoursite.com/">

dwaned

Cool, thanks I'll try that and see how it goes with that information