301 Redirects
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Hi,
Going to be redirecting our current domain to a new domain. Can anyone verify for me that I'm doing it correctly. I want to forward the entire domain plus individual urls. My current structure is below:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine onRedirectMatch 301 ^(.*)$ http://www.new-site.net
Redirect 301 /old-page.html http://www.new-site.net/web-page
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It looks like your last line is just redirecting one page? This has worked for me to redirect them all to their corresponding pages on the new domain (*You'll want to test this first):
<code>RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !newdomain.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://newdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]</code> -
Hey,
Make sure to have a complete structure & SEO plan in place before starting redirection. There is nothing wrong with this Syntax, but for better understanding I'd suggest you to go through this guide one more time,
https://mza.bundledseo.com/learn/seo/redirection
Good luck!
Umar
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