301 redirect issues - need .htaccess help please

[taterchips]

Hi,

About 3 months ago I launched a new website and set up 301 redirects to redirect old pages to appropriate pages on the new site. All of my old pages are redirecting just fine, but am having issues with redirecting old home page(s) to new homepage.

Old site: www.eastsidechiro.net
New site: www.bellevuechiropractor.com

No matter what I do, the old site redirects to the wrong version of my new homepage.

eastsidechiro.net
eastsidechiro.net/index.html
www.eastsidechiro.net
www.eastsidechiro.net/index.html

All 4 above redirect to www.bellevuechiropractor.com/index.html as opposed to www.bellevuechiropractor.com

The old site has 7-8 years of history, links, citations, etc., and I would really prefer to have that page rank flow to the proper .com version of the new site. Any help with my .htaccess file would be greatly appreciated as I can't figure out what the issue is.

I'll state up front that I'm not a coder, and know just enough to be dangerous, although I do enjoy these problems to the extent that I learn a lot from them. But, I could sure use your expertise because I'm at my wits end.

Thanks in advance for your help!!!! .htaccess file from the old site below:

  
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php .html .htm
 Options +FollowSymLinks
 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteBase /
 # Forces a trailing slash to be added
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/)$
 RewriteRule (.*)$ /$1/ [R=301,L]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^eastsidechiro.net [NC]
 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.bellevuechiropractor.com/ [L,R=301]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^http://www.eastsidechiro.net [NC]
 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.bellevuechiropractor.com/ [L,R=301]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.eastsidechiro\.net [NC]
 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.bellevuechiropractor.com/$1 [L,R=301]
 Redirect 301 /index.html http://www.bellevuechiropractor.com/
 Redirect 301 /about.html http://www.bellevuechiropractor.com/about.html
 Redirect 301 /fluoroscopy.html http://www.bellevuechiropractor.com/motion-xray.html
 Redirect 301 /treatment.html http://www.bellevuechiropractor.com/...pointment.html
 Redirect 301 /testimonials.html http://www.bellevuechiropractor.com/testimonials.html
 Redirect 301 /contact.html http://www.bellevuechiropractor.com/contact.html
 Redirect 301 /faq.html http://www.bellevuechiropractor.com/...treatment.html
 Redirect 301 /Headaches.html http://www.bellevuechiropractor.com/headaches.html

[ScriptMan]

Try adding a trailing / to the new domain name. That directs to the root of the site.

You may have to play with that rather messy list above as the file stops executing when the first match is found. What I mean by that is that if you have multiple redirects like

PHP Code:

#Decks and patios
RedirectMatch permanent /Decks_Patios/How-to-Build-a-Functional-Patio.php http://localhost/tom-test/11-How-to-Build-a-Functional-Patio.html
RedirectMatch permanent /Decks_Patios/Deck-Building-Materials.php http://localhost/tom-test/9-Deck-Building-Materials.html
RedirectMatch permanent /Decks_Patios/Guide-to-Patio-Materials.php http://localhost/tom-test/10-Guide-to-Patio-Materials.html
RedirectMatch permanent /Decks_Patios/A-Deck-Adds-Value.php http://localhost/tom-test/8-A-Deck-Adds-Value.html
RedirectMatch permanent /Decks_Patios/ http://localhost/tom-test/2/Decks_and_Patios-1.html 


You would need to list them in that order to ensure accurate results. The files must come before the directory only.



edit: it worked properly for me. Clear your cache and force a page reload.

[taterchips]

Thanks so much for your help scriptman!!

There was a line of code in that .htaccess file that read:

Redirect 301 /index.html http://www.bellevuechiropractor.com/index.html

I removed it as I thought it was the problem but didn't change a thing.

EDIT: I removed the index.html on the end of that line

Apparently all I had to do was clear my cache and reload the page to see it was working!! Man, I need a drink... or a long nap.

Given that the redirects from teh old page are working well now, I'm assuming I should add a 301 in the .htaccess of the new site to redirect index.html to the .com? That is the only page that isn't resolving to the .com homepage?

Thanks again for your help. Sometimes I miss the most obvious things!