Comments on: 301 Redirect Example When Using Wildcard DNS For Subdomains

By: vijay

vijay — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:27:31 +0000

I have One issue, please help me. My issue is I have url http://subdomain.mydomain.com and want to redirect them http://mydomin.com/folder1/index.php?user=subdomain. but I dont want to change URL in addressbar so in addressbar the url should be http://subdomain.mydomain.com. What i have to do? My .htaccess code is
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#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mydomain.com [NC]
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ([^.]+)\.mydomain.com [NC]
#RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mydomain.com/folder1/index.php?user=%1 [L]
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It redirect correctly, But Unfortunitly, it affect addressbar, so it’s useless for me. Please help me. What I have to do? Thanks in advance.

By: Peter Benson

Peter Benson — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:08:39 +0000

Thanks for the post, really helpful

By: Jason Hendricks

Jason Hendricks — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:37:53 +0000

I don’t know if it works with the most current version of WP, but it’s worth a shot:

http://www.deanlee.cn/wordpress/permalinks-migration-plugin/

Otherwise you’d have to write a special rewrite rule or manually add an entry for each old page name to redirect to the new page name in .htaccess (tedious).

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:08:48 +0000

I have hundreds of links to my blog posts in this format:
http://www.mysite.com/2008/05/09/my-blog-post/

but I have changed the settings so the urls now appear like this:
http://www.mysite.com/my-blog-post/

Can anyone tell me what do I put in .htaccess to get it old links to re-direct to the new pages? (All is the same, but now they no longer have the date in the url)

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:48:39 +0000

Hi, just wondering and new to SEO with URL’s.
My situation is a bit complex to make it simple for me
I have a server running IIS6 and using php/mysql for years now. To optimize for search engines, I noticed some techniques like 301 redirects.
I think I have a trick for my situation, but before making it, I’d like to hear your oppinion about it.

If I would make urls like: http://mysite.com/my-first-seo-url
It now would turn into a 404 page. But if I would change the 404.htm into redirect.php in the config, I could then process and query whatever I want to get the right url and make a 301 redirect to it.
Would that enhance my site for search engines?

By: Nicola

Nicola — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:17:34 +0000

Hi,
I’m in a “extremely incompetent hosting company” situation that don’t permit me to use my website without DNS.
Now I’ve put a webserver APACHE on my PC always on with static IP and I’ve forwarded the DNS * and @ to my IP to get the request without www for my website and “redraw” them with WWW.
I have some problems in doing this.
For now I’ve tried this:

but doesen’t work with every page (i.e. http://website.ext/* for every possible string in *).
Can you suggest me how to fix this problem?
I repeat, I have an apache webserver so I can also modify settings in apache if is not possible to do this only with PHP.
Thanks so much.
PS: It can be better if this fix works independent by domain name, so I can help people with same problem.
For knowing, the hosting company is TopHost.it

By: Sanjib

Sanjib — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:59:56 +0000

Hi,

In a Single IP( windows 2003, iis 6) I have 3 Vitual directory( running 3 dirrent web application.

On user request, http://www.website.com should redirect to VD1
on http://www.website.com/VD2 should redirect to VD2 ….

Like way, I read many Article, non of them satisfactory. your help is highly apreciated.

Regards

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:19:31 +0000

Nevermind… Found the solution:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^.*\.htm$ http://www.domain.com [NC,R=301,L]

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:02:22 +0000

Quick htaccess question:

I need to redirect all the old pages from a client to the main index page. His old pages are all .htm files. I want to use a wildcard to catch all of the pages. What would be the rule?

This is what I have so far:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.ca$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^*\.htm$ index.html [NC,R=301,L]

…but it’s not working. What am I missing?

By: Jason Hendricks

Jason Hendricks — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:12:08 +0000

Hi Don. I’m no .htaccess expert, but I’ve come across just about every redirect scenario you can think of. Give me more info on exactly what you’re trying to accomplish and maybe I can help.