Redirect Question

crazyhorse · Share | #1 (**permalink**) 12-01-2004, 02:05 AM

Hi

At the moment i got some links on search engines that i want to redirect to a new direction.

All the links/urls in the search engine have the following format forum.domainname.nl/viewtopic etc-etc, i want them to be redirected to the new url www.domainname.nl/forum

Im on a unix server, and the database of the forum is located in the folder /forum and not in the subdomain folder.

What can i use to redirect those search engine links to the right url.

Regards rik

realestate · #2 (**permalink**) 12-01-2004, 12:31 PM

(not an expert)

So you want to redirect URLs. It should have nothing to do with content right.
Create .htaccess in forum.domain.biz and forward / to ....

crazyhorse · #3 (**permalink**) 12-01-2004, 11:40 PM

Thanks for the reply. Correct it doesnt have to do anything with content just google urls, is there a way you can direct them all in once, dont feel like adding 4500 links in a htacess file.

dcristo · #4 (**permalink**) 12-01-2004, 11:51 PM

Im not too familair with redirect issues but I know one solution could be to create a custom 404 page, so if someone were to click on one of your old URLs in the search engines you could direct them to the new forum URL.

awall19 · #5 (**permalink**) 12-02-2004, 09:22 AM

yeah.... 301 redirect the subdomain to its new locaton at the root level of the subdomain I think...

realestate · #6 (**permalink**) 12-03-2004, 01:50 PM

I don't know why but 301 redirecting / to target doesn't redirect all subdir's & files.

I want to the same thing. Maybe internal links pages were receiving a lot of pr.

One domain was pr7 before drop (before I caught it). it became 0, but after a while pr3 was restored. Maybe tons of links were deep linking to its subpages. I might be settling for PR3 instead of pr7.

crazyhorse · #7 (**permalink**) 12-04-2004, 06:36 AM

Thanks for the replies havnt figured it out yet, i dont feel like adding my database for the sudomain only, takes up a lot space and time, I was hoping there would be another way to accomplish this.

quadcity · #8 (**permalink**) 12-04-2004, 05:12 PM

This .htaccess file should do the trick. Just place it in the subdomain.

Code:

RedirectPermanent / http://www.domainname.nl/forum

EDIT: I'm not sure if it needs a trailing slash. I'll test it out in a few days if you like.