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Posted by Ryan Field
Ryan Field
Courses Plus Student 21,242 Points

Question about .htaccess and redirects

Hey, all!

I have a question about redirecting using a site's .htaccess file.

I have a site that we have redesigned (both on WordPress), but both use different domains. We are going to redirect all traffic from the old site to the new one, but I'm having problems trying to set up the .htaccess file.

For instance, the blog post titles are the same since they were imported from the old site, but how would I write my RewriteRules for this?

The old one uses this structure:

http://www.oldsite.com/blog-post-title

but the new one uses this structure, which we want to keep:

http://www.newsite.ca/blog/blog-post-title

Can anyone offer any insight on how to write my rules?

3 Answers

Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
11,811 Points

For redirecting the entire site, you'll have to implore the Apache Rewrite rules.

# Redirect all pages from oldsite.com
# to newsite.ca/blog
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.oldsite.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^oldsite.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newsite.ca/blog/$1 [R=301,L]

An additional option, but then means you are plugin dependent, is WP htaccess Control https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-htaccess-control/

Maor Tzabari
Maor Tzabari
1,762 Points
Maor Tzabari
Maor Tzabari
1,762 Points

I remember that I did that once, I wrote it on my old website: http://oritzio.com/redirect-all-your-domain-to-another/

Ryan Field
PLUS
Ryan Field
Courses Plus Student 21,242 Points
Ryan Field
Ryan Field
Courses Plus Student 21,242 Points

Wonderful, thank you both for this information! I'll give it a try and see how I make out. :)

Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
11,811 Points

Did that solve it for you??