Redirect a temporary IP
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I was performing some development work on a client's site recently under a temporary location on the host's server, for example:
Google managed to index a couple of pages using this url
I have updated DNS to the correct domain and the site is live, but I am a bit confused in regards to the correct way to create a 301 Redirect for this example or at least a way point it to our 404 page.
I am hoping someone more proficient with htaccess can help me out a bit...
Thanks!
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Ah, simple, nice work!
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It was not a "test" server; rather, a temporary url (prior to updating DNS) to the actual client account on the host server. All development pages were deleted, which is why I was looking for a method to accomplish this via htaccess, but it's not looking promising...
UPDATE
I discovered I only needed to remove the numerical portion of the IP address and then form like a normal 301 Redirect.
Example:
Redirect 301 /~accountname/folder/page.html /folder/page/html
As usual, I was over-complicating things
Hope this helps someone. And, thanks for your suggestions Aran.
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Hi,
On the page (on the test server), you could use the following code (assuming your using PHP).
**header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: client-site.com/new-page-name.html**");**
?>
Hope that helps**
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Sure! I would like to redirect the temporary url Google indexed (with the server IP in it above) to the correct page name on the now live domain.
For example: client-site.com/new-page-name.html
I am quite familiar with 301's which direct to a new page location/name - however, the IP address and the fact that it's not actually a domain is tripping me up a bit.
Thanks!
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hi Could you elaborate and explain what is is your want to achieve with the redirect?
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