Site moved - best practices

Hello All,

One of my URLs has recently changed. I put a small text page under the old url which basically says: our site has moved here... with a link to the new site. The old URL has a non-zero pr which is probably being passed on some to the new site.

The other approaches I can think of: 1) 301 redirect to the new url and 2) Meta-refresh tag to redirect to the new url

What do you think of these?

Thanks,
James

 

301 redirect everytime. Should pass full PR over too.

 

HTTP redirect is the way to go. Don't use meta-refresh - it is disabled in many Windows installations for security reasons and it is not as standard as HTTP redirect.

J.D.

 

You guys rock! Will do a 301 redirect

 

So I don't re-invent the wheel or dig around for it, does anyone have a syntax to use in .htaccess?

Need to redirect example.com to example.org

Thanks again,
James

 

Taken from Mod rewrite cheat sheet

# Site has permanently moved to new domain
# domain.com to domain2.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain2.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Code (markup):

 

dct, thanks man. and thanks for pointing to that resource

 

There's no need to use mod-rewrite for this - too much overhead. Just stick Redirect into your VirtualHost section for the old domain name.

J.D.

 

Good point. Will try that