How to permanently forward my old domain to a new one with Godaddy while changing...

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by robin_west, Dec 11, 2010.

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    Hi!

    Is there any way that I can forward olddomain.com to newdomain.com
    while changing some of the names of the pages at the same time?

    I have about 5-7 pages and I want to ch ange the name of 2 the pages at the same time as I am chaning the domain. This means that I can't simply forward the entire domain. Also I tried forwarding subdomains but when I forward the domain it trumps the subdomain forwardings.

    How should I do this?
     
    robin_west, Dec 11, 2010 IP
  2. madaboutlinux

    madaboutlinux Member

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    If you are looking to change the domain name of your site, you can do so by requesting your hosting company. Once the domain name is changed, you can ask them to set the olddomain.com as Parked on the newdomain.com, which means any request for old domain will be redirected to new domain. There is no problems in changing the file names but make sure you update the file names in your website code wherever they are mentioned.

    Where do you want to forward the sub-domains to? And what problem you face when a domain is forwarded i.e. Parked on the new domain?
     
    madaboutlinux, Dec 11, 2010 IP
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    If you want to forward your old domain to the new one, you can add some rules in .htaccess file, while, If you need change the page's name, you should modify the related website code.
     
    susan_ham, Dec 11, 2010 IP
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    Hi,

    I think this thread is related to {http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=2028081}.
     
    marsh_candy, Dec 11, 2010 IP
  5. robin_west

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    Yes, I wanted to learn both ways and also as soon as I get an answer to how to do it in one of the following ways I can get my website up again.
     
    robin_west, Dec 12, 2010 IP
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    Hi! Thanks for helping...

    I want to forward:

    scam-hunter.com to getacnefacts.com
    scam-hunter.com/get-rid-of-acne-overnight to getacnefacts.com/how-to-get-rid-of-acne-overnight

    I have like 7 subdomains so a few of them don't change name but a couple does like I just mentioned. How shal I do the forwarding?
     
    robin_west, Dec 12, 2010 IP