Htaccess 301 redirect advice

D Hayes

A client is re-branding, which in turn means they are changing their domain name.

We have purchased the new domain and moved the site across. We have submitted the site change to Google via Webmaster Tools.

We now need to set up 301 redirects for all of the pages on the old site to the corresponding pages on the new site.

The url structure will be the same, except for the part before the .com.

Instead of manually adding the following in the .htaccess file:

Redirect 301 /benefits/ http://www.newdomain.com/benefits/
Redirect 301 /contact/ http://www.newdomain.com/contact/

Can anyone recommend a program to automatically do the above? There are hundreds of pages, which will be time consuming to do manually.

cormee

Are you looking to do a blanket redirect?

If so:

Redirect 301 / http://www.newdomain.com

D Hayes

Yes, it's a blanket redirect.

Will your suggestion cover redirects for every page on the site?

cormee

Yes

D Hayes

cormee wrote: »

Yes

Thanks. I was over complicating things big time!

blue4ever

In order to redirect , say www.oldsite.com/contacts to www.newsite.com/contacts - ie every page is redirected to the new site under the same URL structure- stick this in your .hrtassess

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

I'd test it first!

Also, imo, - this should have been done before the search engine submission!

C

D Hayes

blue4ever wrote: »

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

C

Thanks for that. I presume that's the same as what cormee suggested in his first post, just in a different format?

blue4ever

This keeps the structure intact - the bit after the $ saves the url after the old domain name and appends it to the new domain name