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Expert: Jason J, Green
Date: 5/10/2008
Subject: 301 redirect
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QUESTION: Are you able to help me with a 301 redirect as the tech support guy of the host is no help
The old site is yamaha-flute-211.adsl24.co.uk
the pages are in public_html/html
The new site is a www.yamaha-flute-211.co.uk
the pages are in \yamahaflute211\html
I added the first line in the .htaccess file which worked
but I also need to redirect the other pages as the names have changed
When I add any more lines to the .htaccess
eg
redirect 301 /html/page_001.html http://www.yamaha-flute-211.co.uk/html/Alto_Saxophone_Accessories_Cleaning_Kits....
it gives a server error when I try to browse the old site
Is there a max line length restriction or can you see anything else that is wrong
I'm not really sure what path I should be using
I have tried different combinations still without success
ANSWER: Hi Phil,
A possible simple solution is to see if your host can simply implement a site-wide 301 for you. Failing that you might want to play around with some .htaccess directives such as the following:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?olddomain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Of course you will need to make sure that your server's Apache install has Mod Rewrite.
For files that have a directory path as well as a name change you might want to try using regular expressions to come up with a conversion string that works across all or even most of them. Otherwise you will need to manually add 301 directives for each one.
Regards,
Jason J. Green
---------- FOLLOW-UP ----------
QUESTION: They just got back to be with a solution but thanks for your help
What is the best approach in submitting to search engines since I now have 2 urls.
I normally resubmit every 30 days. So should i continue to submit the old site or the new one or both
Thanks
Answer
Hi Phil,
There is no reason to submit your site to the search engines. Instead perhaps you should create, submit and maintain an XML sitemap. This sitemap can help you track and manage the way Google and other search engines index your website. Check out Google's Webmaster Tools for more information.
Once you have your XML sitemap in place you can refer search engine spiders to it directly through your robots.txt file. For example by adding an entry such as:
Sitemap: http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml
Regards,
Jason J. Green
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