A page, link or command that points URL requests to another URL in the world wide web. Redirects can be either server-side or client-side through the use of javascript.
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Use a custom domain and point to Tumblr blog
My domain mydomain.com is registered with GoDaddy. I wish to host my Tumblr blog on this domain with Nearly Free Speech hosting.
My active nameservers at GoDaddy already point to my authoritative ...
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Subdomain redirects to different server, maintaining original URL
I just took over the webmaster position in my organization, and I'm trying to set up a development environment separate from the production environment. The two environments are hosted with different ...
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Link to pages on site without .html extension appearing in browser?
I've modified my .htaccess file to allow access to html files without having to include the extension on the end, for example:
www.mysite.com/document
directs to
www.mysite.com/document.html
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Install Moodle to subdomain with Softaculous via cPanel
I installed Moodle to a directory with Softaculous. Since it doesn't allow installing to a subdomain, after installing it I created a subdomain and pointed the destination (of the subdomain) to the ...
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Why is my no-www redirect taking over 2 seconds?
My website livingalignment.com is very slow to load. The domain and hosting is all with GoDaddy. In Pingdom I found that it is redirecting from www.livingalignment.com to livingalignment.com and it ...
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web.config to redirect except some given IPs
I'm looking for a web.config which is equivalent as the .htaccess file below.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !^123\.123\.123\.123
RewriteCond ...
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Is It bad for SEO to have internal redirected links? [closed]
I have a large number of pages having similar but not identical content. Example: site.com/dream_dictionary_flying and site.com/dream_interpretation_flying.
The problem is that although not being ...
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My forum HTTP redirect won't work .htaccess? [closed]
Yeah, I already have this code "DirectoryIndex Forum-The-Lounge.html index.php" at the top of my .htaccess
And I want my site to redirect into a sub-forum like http://mebes.net? My site is ...
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PHP URL Shortening/Re-Writing
I'm looking to shorten some links, by re-directing. I'm wondering what the best way to do this is: I have files at www.mysite.com/qr/quicklinks/User/ but I'm wondering if it's possible to somehow make ...
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What are the Consequences for using Relative Location Headers?
According to the spec, Location headers used in a redirect require a server name
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
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Location: http://example.com/foo/baz/bar
However, in 2012, most web browsers will ...
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Google search results are invalid
I'm writing a program that lets a user perform a Google search.
When the result comes back, all of the links in the search results are links not to other sites but to Google, and if the user clicks ...
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Redirecting requests for .html pages in subdirectories to the same page in root with .htaccess
I am porting a site from an old version of a CMS to a newer version which has different page addressing techniques. I'm unfortunately not very good with htaccess at all.
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IIS 6 nested virtual directory redirection
We're running IIS 6 on a WinServer2k3 box and we're having some trouble with the following problem:
E-mails were sent out to users asking them to go to the following URL:
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HTTPS To http redirect issue. How to overcome?
Have already seen suggests on how to rewrite https to http. currently using this technique :
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ...
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Alternative to nofollow: custom 302 url shortener?
Here's the scenario: lots of blogging platforms make it tedious to insert nofollow into links within the post content. I.e., you need to edit the html, format it correctly, etc.
I have a client who ...
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Tracking QR Code referrals
We were using a third party website to provide QR codes and track them, the only problem was one week their server went down for some time and effectively killed the QR code off as it was a dead link. ...
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is redirecting mydomain.eu & mydomain.net to mydomain.com using .htacess spammy?
a client has asked my to develop their site, they already own 3 domains, mydomain.eu, .net and .com
they want all the traffic from .eu and .net to redirect to .com, ive explained to them that it is ...
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Should a link validator report 302 redirects as broken links?
A while ago, sparkfun.com changed their URL structure from
/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9266
to
/products/9266
This is nice, right? We don't need to know that it is (or was) a PHP ...
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WordPress mod_rewrite redirect specific folders
As a new user, I'm not allowed to post more than two hyperlinks here. So I have added a space after every http (ignore them and read as full URLs).
System: Debian Etch, Apache 2.2
I have a WordPress ...
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Potential issues with multiple home pages
I have a site where I want to have two different home pages: a general description page for anonymous users, and a dashboard page for logged-in users.
I am debating between two implementations:
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Redirect everything from a domain to
I need to (permanent) redirect all of the following:
http://www.domain.com
http://www.domain.com/folder
http://sub.domain.com
http://sub.domain.com/folder
(basically everything what's possible)
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Tell apache to point to a subfolder as default starting point for public
What would be the different methods of telling Apache to serve up httpdocs/public instead of httpdocs as the default starting point?
I want to be able to have my includes and logs directories behind ...
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Moving from static site to Wordpress
I'm moving a site from static to Wordpress where all the pages in the old site were XXX.html. This has gone ok as I included a Wordpress plugin to handle the renaming of pages/posts to .html. I was ...
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HTTP 303 redirection and robots.txt
On a site I'm working on, we're using the HTTP 303 redirect pattern (see this article for background) to distinguish between information and non-information resources. So: some URL's under /id get ...
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What happens if a banned domain is redirected to another domain?
What would happen if a domain that was banned from google was redirected to an unbanned domain? Would the ban follow over to the new domain, or would the new domain be unaffected?
Also, if the ban ...
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Does re-directing a penalized website fix the problem
A client has consulted us a case where they were not able to remove all the paid links from their website, they decided to redirect everything to a new domain, and have a fresh start. The question ...
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Redirect to same site but add things into the URL
I have a PHP file, index.php, that is set as the index file for my site. If someone wants to pull up a value for a, as an example, then they would type http://www.website.com/?value=a. Is it possible ...
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.htaccess Redirect Old Threads
I have moved to mybb to vanilla and want to redirect old threads to the new format, so the indexed threads on google aren't lost.
The old format is
showthread.php?tid=3003
Whereas the new ...
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Redirecting a subdomain to an HTTPS website
I need to redirect a subdomain on my website to a third party HTTPS website. We have our website hosted on GoDaddy and I tried their subdomain forwarding mechanism but that didn't work. That's when I ...
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2answers
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Show other domain using DNS instead of iframe
I have two domains bought at different providers and I would like http://aaaaa.com to show http://bbbbb.com/aaaaa.
Is this possible using only DNS? Must I transfer the domain to my hosting provider?
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SEO: Linking to a domain that redirects to a subdomain
I have: www.mywebsite.com which redirects to en.mywebsite.com, es.mywebsite.com, fr.mywebsite.com depending on the user language, so there's not an indexed website in www.mywebsite.com
However, when ...
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How do I automatically redirect people from my Blogger blog?
My blog is a Blogger blog and I'm going to be moving it soon to a .com domain and a Wordpress site. How do I redirect people (and links) to my new site?
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Redirecting broken links (from external site)
In webmaster tools we found that a bunch of sites are linking to non existent pages on our site. So far I can see 50,000+ links. Is there any downside to redirecting all of these broken links to a ...
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How to make a website fit in mobile browsers
How should a good website work in a mobile browser? Should it adapt to fit the browser window size, or should it redirect to a page that is made to fit in mobile browsers?
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How to point one sub-domain to another sub-domain and they can be used interchangeably
I'm trying to do this
secure.domain2.com -loads content from- secure.domain1.com
So if somebody goes to secure.domain2.com it will load the content of secure.domain1.com
Note that I don't want a ...
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301 redirect to different page on different domain?
I want to make a 301 redirect to a different page on a different domain. The page is on the same topic, but is different content.
Also, the traffic to the original page comes from the alt text on an ...
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Joomla. Link redirects to another template
Well, i din't know where to post this question (here or stackoverflow) but i really need your help. I have a website on joomla, i'm using a template (called Mall) and when i click a link from the ...
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Change page title in Google results when the response is a 303 redirect
We have a purchased a new domain name (example.com) that was owned by another company and it appears Google has cached the title from the previous owners which was "examPLE". We would like the title ...
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.htaccess 301 Redirect Hash Tag Redirect
How do I do a .htaccess redirect that has a hash tag in it?
Example
Source:
domain.com/#/subdir
Target:
newdomain.com/whatever/something
Everything I've tried ignores the hash tag and either ...
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Would a 403 page, a blank page and a page redirect be indexed by search robots?
I am wondering if a disallow directive needs to be issued to robots on pages that will generate:
a 403 forbidden error;
a blank page, or;
a page redirect (to log in page for example).
Would not ...
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404 Not Found Errors -> Redirect
Hi i have recently moved my forum from Mybb to Vanilla, so the index pages such as showthread.php now do not exist. This is a big problem for SEO, what do I do to redirect this to the home page?
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Getting a domain sub-directory url for a new server
I have an web application server running tomcat and i need to publish my APIs to internet users. However I don't have a domain name for this server and I can only put the ip address of this server ...
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Links don't work on new server
I've recently moved from server with php4 to php5. Now I cant open content in my page. Links look like this "page.com/news-it-is-rainy-day-1.html". But when I try to open link I just get the archive ...
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30x Redirects and google page ranking
I'm building a Drupal site where much of the content is going to be in static on specific pages. In Drupal, each piece of content (whether you like it or not) gets created its own page (node). To ...
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SEO for site with 301 redirect on root domain to subfolder
I've been asked to do SEO for a site. The site is made using Wordpress and prestashop. Because of this the root domain has a 301 redirect to a subfolder - domain/shop/
For my SEO submission work, I ...
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I'm using a CNAME to send www. traffic to domain without www. Will this hurt my SEO? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does the “canonical name” in DNS make any difference to search engines?
Mu understanding is that CNAME should be used for subdomains and www is just another ...
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Redirect primary domain to parked domain
The problem is as follows:
We already have registered domain name (example.com.hr) via a Croatian domain name provider.
During the web hosting registration process, the registrar doesn't offer a ...
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How to approach redirecting thirty domains?
I have a client with thirty some domain names. All bought for the reason of being close to a competitors domain. They want them all to redirect to their main portal. Right now I have them pointing to ...
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How can my site detect mobile phones and switch visitors to a mobile Domain?
My Question is that when user enter the website: http://www.example.com then they will just go to automatically to http://www.example.mobi how can i do this .. is their any technique behind that.
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Error in Custom Domain Name for my Tumblr account
I have a top level domain (harib.co.in) which already hosts a WordPress powered blog. I need to associate it with my tumblr account (harihb.tumblr.com). In my blog settings screen, I selected 'Use ...
