Addon, Sub Domains and 301 redirect... HELP !

here's jonny · Mar 27, 2007

Hi
I have 3 domain names...

domain.co.uk (main domain)

* sub.domain.co.uk (sub)
* test.domain.co.uk (sub)

domain2.co.uk (addon)
domain.com (addon)

On domain.co.uk I have a subdomain 'sub.domain.co.uk'

This is located 'public_html/sub'

The 2 addon domains are both set to use the same path 'public_html/sub'

So regardless of which way you access the site, you hit the same files etc...

Ideally I only want users to visit via www.domain.com so would like to configure some for of permanent redirect.. I've been advised to do this using .htaccess and a 301 redirect.

To test this I would like to try it with domain2.co.uk and have all it's traffic redirected to www.domain.com

How do I do this as a test ??
How do I do it on the two .co.uk domain as a permanent redirect to the .com
Will this effect google ranks ?? as domain.co.uk has a good placement.

Hope this makes some for of sense..

Thanks

shabbir · Mar 28, 2007

Moved your thread from Web Hosting to SEO forum.

here's jonny said:

How do I do this as a test ??
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2 Ways of doing this.
1. Test it by typing the old domain and see if it redirects.
2. Check the server headers from any tool like http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp

here's jonny said:

How do I do it on the two .co.uk domain as a permanent redirect to the .com
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Go through the Sticky thread right at the begining of this forum and your questions will get solved but then also I will help you with the quotes from that thread.
SEO FAQ's said:
I just changed my domain name. How can I switch without losing my rankings?

You'll need to do a 301 redirect from the old domain to the new domain. Fortunately this is not difficult to do. You'll need to add the following lines of code to a file called .htaccess and place it in the root directory of the old domain:
Code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?old-domain\.com$ [NC] 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.new-domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
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here's jonny said:

Will this effect google ranks ?? as domain.co.uk has a good placement.
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If you have a permanent redirect the things will slowly move and it will be a smooth transfer and theoretically nothing should happen to the rankings but no one can predict the practical aspects of it. Again I would suggest you to go through SEO FAQ's

here's jonny · Mar 29, 2007

Thanks

What do I need to do, if I only want this to happen to 1 of the domains for now.. ??

Then when I ready make it affect all domains ! ??

shabbir · Mar 30, 2007

Put the thing in the .htaccess file of the domain you wish to do as of now. When you plan to apply the same to the other domains do the same for them as well.

here's jonny · Mar 31, 2007

Thanks.. I'll try it and see what happens..

Last question for now

How do I add the subdomain and have the redirect to the new domain ??

shabbir · Apr 1, 2007

here's jonny said:

Thanks.. I'll try it and see what happens..

Last question for now

How do I add the subdomain and have the redirect to the new domain ??
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For creating a sub-domain you have to consult your hosting provider.

For redirecting you have to redirect use the same code I have given above with slight modification.
Code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(sub-domain\.)?old-domain\.com$ [NC] 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.new-domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
See the only thing differs is from www to sub-domain

here's jonny · Apr 1, 2007

Thanks

I've already got the subdomain.. just wondered how to redirect from it !!

Does the .htaccess go in the root, or the subdomains root ??

shabbir · Apr 1, 2007

Nope. In the root of the main domain.

here's jonny · Apr 1, 2007

Thanks again..
I'm going to try this on one of my addon domains, which shares the same folder as my subdomain.

here's jonny · Apr 1, 2007

Just tried this.. and found the following..

The domain I tried it on is an addon domain, it shares the same files as my sub domain.

They are located MyUser\public_html\ROOT\test
Test is the subdomains files...

If I add the .htaccess to root, I get:
www.newdomain.com/1$

If I add it to the sub domain directory it works..

Is this OK ?

shabbir · Apr 1, 2007

Are you trying on the subdomain of some free domain providers then it should go into the subdomain only.

here's jonny · Apr 1, 2007

When I set my site up originally, I created a sub domain and ran it from there.
It seemed to make sense at the time.

Then I bought a new domain (domain.co.uk) and pointed it to the same files as the sub domain.

I finally bought another domain (domain.com) which reflects exactly what the site is, so I want to use that !!

So I'm looking to redirect the domain.co.uk to domain.com.

As domain.co.uk's files are in the subdomains folder, I assume that is where I need to locate the .htaccess ??

Thanks

shabbir · Apr 2, 2007

here's jonny said:

As domain.co.uk's files are in the subdomains folder, I assume that is where I need to locate the .htaccess ??
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As far as I know there should be one .htaccess file in the parent folder but if its working for you in sub-domain I don't see any problem here.

here's jonny · Apr 3, 2007

Hi

I've tested using this :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(test\.)?old-domain\.co\.uk$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.new-domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

and it seems to work OK locating the .htaccess in the subdomains directory:

This OK for the subdomain, but now I need to consider the second domain.
Currently users access the site via:

www.2ndDomain.co.uk
2ndDomain.co.uk
www.2ndDomain.co.uk/forum
2ndDomain.co.uk/forum

How do I redirect that to the new-domain.com ? ?

Finally - I have the main domain name....
Users can access via:

sub.maindomain.co.uk
www.maindomain.co.uk
maindomain.co.uk
www.maindomain.co.uk/sub
maindomain.co.uk/sub

How do I redirect that to the new-domain.com ? ?

My aim is to get everything going to the new-domain.com...

Many Thanks

shabbir · Apr 3, 2007

How do I redirect that to the new-domain.com ? ?
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For both the redirects your above redirect with slight mod will work.

Just go through the following question at the [thread=145]SEO FAQ[/thread] thread.

SEO FAQ's said:

Why does my website have a higher PR with the 'www' then without it?
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It will redirect to non www version to the www one and then you can always add the redirect to the new domain.

here's jonny · Apr 3, 2007

Shabbir - Thanks

I'm sure I'll be back shortly with some more questions !!

here's jonny · Apr 3, 2007

I'm back.

I need to redirect domain.co.uk & www.domain.co.uk -> www.domain.com

Is this correct ?? :
Code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.co\.uk$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain\.co\.uk$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Then I need to make sure domain.com -> www.domain.com
Code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
What am I missing ??

shabbir · Apr 4, 2007

I would redirect everything from domain.co.uk to www version of the new domain and not have a redirect to the www version of domain.co.uk

here's jonny · Apr 4, 2007

I thought that's what the examples above did !!
Is that not correct ?

here's jonny · Apr 4, 2007

One thing I've just noticed !!

I'm using:
Code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(test\.)?xxxx\.co\.uk$ [NC] 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://test.aaaaa.com/$1 [R=301,L]
This redirects a subdomain of xxxx.co.uk to the new address and works well.

Except people could still visit by www.xxxx.co.uk/test or xxxx.co.uk/test
How do I stop that as well ???

Once I've got this bit and confirmed the other redirects,I'm sorted

Thanks

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