Redirects For Fun And Profit - Part 1

FAQ: How to move a site to a new domain?

[bakedjake]

Commonly Used Redirects For Moving To A New Domain

Most of these are lifted from, slightly modified, or examplified forms of posts here at WebmasterWorld and summarized here for reference. Thanks to skipfactor, pageoneresults, korkus2000, Xoc, jdMorgan, Decius, and Daiman for their posts on these topics.

Case: You are transferring from www.example-old.com to www.example-new.com. The architecture of the site will remain the same - you simply want to switch to a new domain name. You want to pass related page and parameter information.

Server Level Redirects

Apache (mod_rewrite)

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example-new.com/$1 [R=301,L]

IIS (Built In Rewrite Module)

Right click on site (www.example-old.com) in IIS Manager, select Properties

Click on "Home Directory" tab

Select the "A redirection to a URL" option

In the "Redirect to" box, place the text

http://www.example-new.com$V$Q

Select the "The exact URL entered above" option

Select the "A permanent redirection for this resource" option

Language Specific Redirects

see below

[edited by: oilman at 8:18 pm (utc) on June 16, 2004]

[bakedjake]

This PHP code should handle any parameters:

<?php

[pre]header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); 
header("Location: http://www.example-new.com" .
 $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] . '?' . 
 $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']); 
exit();

[/pre]

?>

[bakedjake]

This Perl code should handle any parameters:

print "Status: 301 Moved Permanently\r\n" . 
"Location: http://www.example-new.com" .
"$ENV{'SCRIPT_NAME'}?$ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}\r\n" . 
"\r\n";

[edited by: oilman at 8:23 pm (utc) on June 16, 2004]

[bakedjake]

This ASP code should handle any parameters:

<% 
Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently" 
Response.AddHeader "Location", "http://www.example-new.com" _ 
& Request.ServerVariables("SCRIPT_NAME") _
& "?" & Request.ServerVariables("QUERY_STRING")
Response.End 
%>

[thaedge]

Yes but what about when they are changing the directory structure :( Shall be a pain to keep my listings and traffic going while we do this.